4. How do the people at the feast react to the commands that Leif presents to them?
(a) A huge fight breaks out among the men.
(b) Most leave the feast immediately without celebrating in protest.
(c) Most refuse to be baptized outright.
(d) Despite reluctance, everyone knows that trade is directly tied to their obedience in matters such as these.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Merewyn tell Orm is the proper protocol when they meet the Abbot of Glastonbury?

2. What is held every year on the eastern plain of Reykjavik?

3. What do Sigurd, Merewyn, Orm, and Ketil call their new home?

4. Who does King Sweyn leave behind in England?

5. How does Orm accept the proper protocol when he meets the Abbot of Glastonbury?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How did Ketil dress on his way to the Allthing, two weeks after Rumon left Iceland?

4. 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?

5. What happened to England as Ethelred cowered in his palace at Winchester?

6. What is Thora, Merewyn's daughter, like in June of 1000?

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

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

9. What was Ethelred like in the year 1002?

10. Why couldn't Merewyn get the land grants and the title of Thane for Orm that she wanted in the year 1002?

(see the answer keys)

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