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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why was Rumon sent to Glastonbury Abbey?
2. How does Alfhere deal with Alfrida's behavior?
3. Why is Rumon lost?
4. How old was King Edgar?
5. Why does Alfrida not want Ethelred to attend Edward's coronation?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, look when Rumon first sees him?
2. How did Rumon decorated his rooms in the Glastonbury Abbey guesthouse during the 2 years he lived there?
3. On the feast of the Assumption, how does Merewyn describe the Abbey's gardens as she sat in them beside Elfled on the well curb?
4. What was Rumon's nightmare on Christmas night after Alfrida had made time to see him earlier in the day?
5. What happened when Edward's body thane, Gunnar, is sent to Alfrida on Coronation Eve?
6. Is Breaca, Merewyn's mother, crazy as Rumon thinks she is when he meets her at the beginning of Chapter 2?
7. What did Rumon say to Merewyn in his letter that he sent to her at the Abbey?
8. Why was the thought of Merewyn painful for Rumon as he talked to Dunstan outside his guesthouse rooms at Glastonbury Abbey?
9. Describe Caw when he is first introduced in Chapter 1.
10. Detail Rumon's vision at Tre-Uther.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the role of the Catholic Church in "Avalon?" How does the Church influence decisions made by the characters? How would the characters decisions be different if the Church didn't have such pervasive effect in Medieval society?
Essay Topic 2
What is the passionate emotion that is communicated in "Avalon?" Why was Seton moved to write? What is the thing that the Seton had to communicate? Explain Seton's motivating emotion and how it is explored in "Avalon?"
Essay Topic 3
In "Avalon," some of the characters are given positive, sympathetic portrayals. Others have negative, perhaps even villainous portrayals. Others may be introduced as negative but gradually become positive. How does Seton indicate which characters are positive and which are negative? What details, actions, and characteristics does Seton give us to help us define which characters are "good" in the novel and which ones are "bad?" Explain how you are able to tell the difference.
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