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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. What do the Norday villagers use to attack from the broch?
(a) Stones and arrows.
(b) Silence and hunger.
(c) Muskets and rifles.
(d) Hot water and long whips.

2. Why does Thorfinn miss the great battle at Stirling Castle?
(a) He drinks too much whiskey.
(b) He's hiding in a cave.
(c) He falls off a cliff into a river.
(d) He sleeps through it.

3. What is a kirk?
(a) Small hill of grass.
(b) Church.
(c) Outhouse.
(d) Golf course.

4. How is Thorfinn's pet monkey dressed?
(a) Roman costume.
(b) Uniform of Norsemen.
(c) Uniform of Varingers.
(d) Greek costume.

5. In the 1930s what does the broch on Norday Island look like?
(a) Three entwined circular structures made of small stones.
(b) 40 foot stone castle structure in village center.
(c) No longer exists.
(d) Circular ruin on the shore's edge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Mr. Simon hoping to go on vacation with Miss Cameron?

2. What is Jeremy Smith watching during the school lesson about brochs?

3. What is a sign that the broch is being neglected?

4. What does Prince Boris serve at the feast for the main course?

5. Who are the Varingers?

Short Essay Questions

1. In chapter four where does the school teacher, Mr. Simon, take the class?

2. Why does Jacob Olafson run away on the day of his sister's wedding?

3. How are the men of the North treated when they had sailed into the Byzantium empire?

4. When and where does Old Jacob Olafson die?

5. What are some of the things that village people buy at Isa Estquoy's shop on Norday Island?

6. What reaction does Jacob's wife, Rena, have to arriving on Norday Island?

7. Why does Isa Estquoy know more than the minister and doctor about the community of Norday?

8. Why is the horse, Seamus, killed on the road to Stirling Castle?

9. Why did the invading ship men stop coming to claim land in the Orkney islands?

10. When Thorfinn and his father are in the smithy, the men are talking politics. What point of view does MacTavish take?

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