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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 done to Derfel to humiliate him by his captors?
(a) He is slandered.
(b) He is forced to walk the streets naked.
(c) His beard is cut off.
(d) He is beaten in public.

2. Who gives Lancelot his sword?
(a) Guinevere.
(b) His mother.
(c) Arthur.
(d) His father.

3. How many spearmen embark to protect the treasury and royal family at the end of the book?
(a) 196.
(b) 163.
(c) 174.
(d) 185.

4. Who saves Derfel after he is captured?
(a) Arthur.
(b) Caerwyn.
(c) Taliesin.
(d) Guinevere.

5. What color is Nimue dressed in at the last battle?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) White.
(d) Green.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has caused the chaos in Aque Sulis?

2. What is Arthur not prepared for in the battle at the end of the book?

3. Who is leading the attack against Arthur at the end of the book?

4. Who is the ghost fence erected for?

5. What signals the coming of the Saxons at the end of the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes the forces of Nimue and Mordred to break up?

2. What breaks the peace in Briton after the defeat of the Saxons?

3. What does Nimue use to cast her spells on people?

4. What does Derfel do when Nimue and Mordred's forces begin to break up?

5. What does Derfel make sure of before he kills Aelle and why?

6. What trade does Arthur start learning after the battle against the Saxons is won?

7. What is the main cause of the delay of leaving Camlann?

8. What deformity of the narrator is revealed at the beginning of Part 3?

9. What is the ghost fence?

10. What do Arthur and all of his men have a very small amount of knowledge about?

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