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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. Who does King Sweyn leave behind in England?
(a) His wife and Canute.
(b) One of his Viking ships.
(c) His sister and husband and their son.
(d) His 3 daughters.

2. What does Merewyn tell the Abbot she wants?
(a) Food.
(b) Information.
(c) Lodging for the night.
(d) Charity.

3. What does Rumon offer to do for Merewyn when he meets her at the place where she has taken her aunt's heart?
(a) Take her home to Uther.
(b) Marry her.
(c) Guide her up the Tor that evening
(d) Help her bury the heart.

4. What does King Ethelred do while the Vikings attack England?
(a) He hides.
(b) He fights back.
(c) He wallows in self pity and drunkenness.
(d) He has magnificent feasts.

5. What is Rumon doing at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) He is working in the garden, having given up hope of ever finding Merewyn.
(b) He and Brother Finian continue their journey to find Merewyn.
(c) He is telling his grandchildren the story of how he found Merewyn, their grandmother.
(d) He and Merewyn are being married.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Merewyn want for Orm in England?

2. When do Finian and Rumon first sense that something is wrong on their journey to find Merewyn?

3. Why is Merewyn excited after she and her party walk over the Medip Mountains?

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

5. Who is Thorbjorg?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Allthing?

2. What did Merewyn tell the porter at Glastonbury Abbey that got her in to see the Abbot?

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

4. How did Merewyn describe the Hafnarfell Mountains?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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