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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. What does Merewyn tell the Abbot she wants?

2. What does Erik the Red have for his son?

3. What does the Abbess suggest Merewyn to do once her pilgrimage is over?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How did Merewyn describe the Hafnarfell Mountains?

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

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The dove motif appears several times in "Avalon." Why is the dove used in the story? How does it relate to those particular scenes in the novel? How is it important to the overall theme or plot?

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

Compare England with Great Ireland where Rumon was held captive for 3 years with the Culdees. Explain how the two places differ, what each place represents, and how their contrast contributes to the meaning of the work.

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