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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 Erik tell Ketil when Ketil finds him in the evening?
2. Why does the chief Viking order Merewyn to be taken to his ship?
3. What did Rumon decide to do once he heard the news that Merewyn was taken by the Vikings?
4. What does Erik the Red have for his son?
5. What does the Abbess speak of to the nuns during the interviews?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How was Sigurd dressed as he followed Ketil on the way to the Allthing?
3. What was Ethelred like in the year 1002?
4. What did Merewyn tell the porter at Glastonbury Abbey that got her in to see the Abbot?
5. What is Thora, Merewyn's daughter, like in June of 1000?
6. Why couldn't Merewyn get the land grants and the title of Thane for Orm that she wanted in the year 1002?
7. How did Brother Finian and Rumon find out that the smoke Finian smelled was really a Viking attack?
8. How did Ketil react to Merewyn's plea for him not to go a-viking anymore?
9. How does Merewyn describe Thorbjorg, the seeress from Brattalid?
10. What did Merewyn see as the differences between Greenland and Iceland?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Think about how the characters, setting, and themes in "Avalon" relate to the period in which it was written. (The early to mid 1960s.) How is it a reflection, and how is it a criticism of that time period? How does Seton make her opinions about that world clear to the reader?
Essay Topic 2
Explain how and why the ending of "Avalon" appropriately or inappropriately concluded the story. Did the ending of "Avalon" provide the reader with a significant closure or did it merely end? Does the reader have to adjust to ambiguity or uncertainty or does "Avalon" satisfy the reader need to know what happens to Merewyn and Rumon?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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