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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 does the Abbot suggest to Merewyn regarding her question?
(a) She doesn't deserve to know where Rumon is.
(b) She talk to Brother Finian who lives in one of the cells halfway up the Tor.
(c) She leave the Abbey at once.
(d) She go elsewhere for the information.

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

3. Why is Merewyn excited after she and her party walk over the Medip Mountains?
(a) She is excited to finally be over the mountains.
(b) She is excited to be at Glastonbury and to find Rumon.
(c) She is excited to be home.
(d) She is exicted to tell her children about the area in which she grew up.

4. What does the Abbess ask Merewyn to do when the Abbess dies?
(a) To pray for her.
(b) To leave the Abbey.
(c) To take her heart back to Padstow.
(d) To become Abbess.

5. How did Poldu remain alive after the attack?
(a) He fought back.
(b) He hid from the Vikings.
(c) He killed the chief Viking.
(d) He spoke up, asking the chief if he was such a beast that he would rape his own daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ketil call Merewyn?

2. Who sails into Greenland in June of 1000?

3. What does Merewyn want Sigurd to do while at the Althing?

4. What does Sigurd make Orm promise before Sigurd dies?

5. What is Rumon doing at the beginning of Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where was Merewyn's interview and what was Merewyn doing with Abbess Merwinna when the Abbess told Merewyn that she couldn't be accepted into the novitiate?

2. What was the grand commotion that happened in Greenland in June of 1000?

3. What did the Abbess Merwinna request of Merewyn?

4. How was Merewyn dressed as she followed her men on the way to the Allthing?

5. When did Rumon get word of Merewyn's whereabouts when he followed her back to Padstow?

6. What did Merewyn see as the differences between Greenland and Iceland?

7. How had Bishop Ethelwold done his duty by Merewyn for her trip to St. Petroc's?

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

9. When Finian and Rumon went up to the monastery, what did the prior, Poldu, say happened to Merewyn during the Viking raid?

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

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