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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 is the first meal the Eastern Emperor serves them?
(a) Cold porridge.
(b) Unleavened bread and olive oil.
(c) Wafer thin slices of chocolate.
(d) Eggs, dolphin's fins, young eaglets and fruits.

2. Where is Mr. Simon hoping to go on vacation with Miss Cameron?
(a) Africa.
(b) Brittany.
(c) Italy.
(d) New York City.

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

4. Who does Jacob Olafson bring back with him to Norday Island?
(a) Will, his father.
(b) Mara, a seal wife.
(c) Rena, an Indian from Canada.
(d) John, his son.

5. What happens when the Sea King ship is sighted?
(a) Flocks are driven in, fishermen hide in caves, families in the broch.
(b) All gather in the church and pray.
(c) Everyone runs to boats and tries to escape the island.
(d) The army is sent to shore to defend the village.

Short Answer Questions

1. Scottish is a fusion of what two languages?

2. After his adventure with what does Thorfinn step on the shores of Norday Island?

3. What is the primary image of "The Song of the Broch?"

4. In chapter 2, who does Thorfinn dream of?

5. What do the Norday villagers use to attack from the broch?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the Solan Goose?

3. What does the poorest man in Norday believe politically?

4. Why is Mr. Simon's lesson on Bannockburn so boring?

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

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

7. Why are the children bored on the field trip to the broch?

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

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

10. When Sir James MacTavish is on his way to the battle of Bannockburn he meets a herdsman. What has the herdsman never heard of?

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