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The Saxon Shore Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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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 does the wild animal that interrupts the beginning of the cavalry show do second?
(a) Kill a man.
(b) Eat a baby.
(c) Attack the crowds.
(d) Stand up straight and scare everyone to pieces.

2. Who is Lucanus?
(a) A woman Merlyn's mother hopes he will marry.
(b) Merlyn's son.
(c) Merlyn's friend and a physician.
(d) Merlyn's sworn enemy.

3. Why are Merlyn and his men putting on a cavalry display for Athol and his men?
(a) They are trying to show off how powerful they are.
(b) They are trying to build friendship and this is how they do it.
(c) They are required to do so by law.
(d) They requested one.

4. What relationship do Lucanus and Ludmilla have?
(a) They are siblings.
(b) Ludmilla is studying medicine under Lucanas.
(c) They hate each other, actually.
(d) They are lovers.

5. Why does Merlyn get angry with Donuil when he goes hunting by himself in Chapter 10?
(a) All of these answers are correct.
(b) Because he could have gotten hurt.
(c) Because someone is following them and they could have been attacked.
(d) Because if he didn't come back, Merlyn couldn't get Arthur back.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Merlyn tell Ambrose that Arthur could become High King?

2. What does Merlyn say in response to Ambrose's assertions that Merlyn is a sorcerer?

3. How does Merlyn react to Lucanus's request that he visit the leper colony?

4. Who does Merlyn think killed Uther?

5. What wild animal attacks the group in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does King Athol do to Finn when he learns that he has been rude to Merlyn?

2. What is Merlyn's main mission as described in the Prologue in "The Saxon Shore"?

3. What prevents Merlyn from realizing that he is not, in fact, alone when he goes to visit a secret vale in Chapter 6?

4. What does Merlyn believe that Arthur's destiny is?

5. What happens when a wild bear attacks the crowd just as Merlyn and his men are preparing for their cavalry display?

6. What is surprising about Donuil's choice to stay in Camulod?

7. Why is King Athol so amazed at the candles Merlyn and Donuil bring him?

8. What does Merlyn tell his captors about how he came across the baby Arthur?

9. Why is Ludmilla familiar to Merlyn when they meet in Chapter 3?

10. Why does Merlyn come to realize that he was wrong in calling the Outlanders barbarians?

(see the answer keys)

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