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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is held every year on the eastern plain of Reykjavik?
(a) The Althing.
(b) The Carnival.
(c) The national sheep shearing contest.
(d) The sacrifice to Thor.

2. What kind of a ruler is Ethelred?
(a) Ineffective.
(b) Beloved.
(c) Courageous.
(d) Feared.

3. Who asks to join King Sweyn?
(a) Canute.
(b) Orm.
(c) Erik the Red.
(d) Ketil.

4. Who is Sigurd?
(a) Merewyn's son.
(b) Merewyn's guard.
(c) Merewyn's captor.
(d) Merewyn's husband.

5. How does Merewyn feel about going to the place Erik speaks of?
(a) Merewyn hates to leave Langarfoss.
(b) What matters to Merewyn is what her husband's family wants to be.
(c) Merewyn is indifferent so long as she is not returning to England.
(d) Merewyn is as excited as Ketil to go.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bishop Ethelwold do when he returns to the Abbey in October?

2. Three days after speaking with the Abbot of Glastonbury, where do Merewyn and her children arrive?

3. What does the Abbot suggest to Merewyn regarding her question?

4. What is working its way through the Western Settlement in Greenland?

5. Why does the chief Viking order Merewyn to be taken to his ship?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Bishop Ethelwold reply to Merewyn when she asked him where she should go upon her return from her journey to bury the Abbess' heart at St. Petroc's?

2. How did Ketil react to Merewyn's plea for him not to go a-viking anymore?

3. How were Merewyn, Orm, and Thora received at the hostel at Glastonbury Abbey?

4. How does Merewyn describe Thorbjorg, the seeress from Brattalid?

5. What did Orm feel for his mother once Orm sold the Bylgia to the Bristol Thane, Odo?

6. How did Brother Finian and Rumon find out that the smoke Finian smelled was really a Viking attack?

7. What was Ethelred like in the year 1002?

8. Why did Orm stiffen when the porter at Glastonbury Abbey referred to the Vikings as "dreadful Danes?"

9. How was Sigurd dressed as he followed Ketil on the way to the Allthing?

10. What did Merewyn see on her trip to the Allthing?

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