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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. On what day of the week does Olafson die?
(a) Tuesday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Monday.
2. What is the village opinion of Miss Cameron?
(a) Bold as brass.
(b) Quiet as a mouse.
(c) Soft as a feather pillow.
(d) Sweet as candy.
3. What keeps Thorfinn awake during church services?
(a) Eating sweets.
(b) Counting sheep.
(c) Playing the piano.
(d) Singing hymns.
4. What does "The Song of the Broch" promise?
(a) No trouble will ever come again.
(b) The broch will always be in good repair.
(c) The sea will overtake the broch in time.
(d) Stones will crumble.
5. What is at the center of a broch?
(a) Stable for horses.
(b) Sleeping quarters for children.
(c) Cookstoves.
(d) A deep well.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of Olafson's farm?
2. What do the men of Norday clean their pipes with?
3. What do the knight and his squire eat on the way to their destination in Chapter 2?
4. What language does Rolf Rolfson speak?
5. In chapter 2, who does Thorfinn dream of?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the title of chapter 3 refer to?
2. When Thorfinn and his father are in the smithy, the men are talking politics. What point of view does MacTavish take?
3. Why does the author call the gathering at the Norday blacksmith shop "the village parliament?"
4. In chapter four where does the school teacher, Mr. Simon, take the class?
5. Why does the school teacher, Mr. Simon, have trouble paying for his groceries at the village shop in Norday?
6. What is the family situation of Matthew Ragnarson at the beginning of the book?
7. Why does Thorfinn not know what the circular ruin is that stands on the shore a mere half mile from his home?
8. Why does Isa Estquoy know more than the minister and doctor about the community of Norday?
9. What is the Solan Goose?
10. How are the men of the North treated when they had sailed into the Byzantium empire?
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