1: Whom does the Wart live with as a young boy?
a. Merlyn in his cottage
b. Sir Ector
c. King Pellinore
d. Sir Grummore
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2: Merlyn tutors Wart by transforming him into what?
a. A wizard
b. His brother, Kay
c. A knight
d. Various animals
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3: What does the Wart become for Kay?
a. His tutor
b. His squire
c. His enemy
d. His protector
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4: What does King Pellinore chase?
a. The Questing Beast
b. The griffin
c. Robin Wood
d. The Dog Boy
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5: Who is the King of England who has died without an heir?
a. William Twyti
b. Pellinore
c. Uther Pendragon
d. Grummore
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6: Why does the Wart attempt to pull the sword out of the stone?
a. He is trying to get a replacement for Kay’s sword that he forgot.
b. He wins the tournament.
c. He wants to try when all the others aren’t looking.
d. He believes he is the rightful heir to the throne.
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7: What is the main theme of Book II, The Queen of the Air and Darkness?
a. Love
b. War
c. Morality
d. Fatherhood
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8: How does the Wart, now King Arthur, describe war that infuriates Merlyn?
a. As “necessary”
b. As “chivalrous”
c. As “splendid”
d. As “merciful”
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9: Who is Arthur’s half-sister who seduces him?
a. Guenever
b. Elaine
c. Queen Morgause
d. Mordred
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10: Whose forbidden love is told in Book III, The Ill-Made Knight?
a. Arthur and Guenever’s
b. Arthur and Morguase’s
c. Lancelot and Guenever’s
d. Arthur and Elaine’s
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11: Who is Merlyn in love with?
a. Archimedes
b. Nimue
c. Guenever
d. Elaine
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12: What powerful forces is Arthur pulled between in Book IV, The Candle in the Wind?
a. His desire for justice and his desire to remain king
b. His love for his son and his desire for a woman
c. His desire for revenge and his desire for peace
d. His desire for justice and his love for his friend and wife
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13: What is Force Majeure?
a. Arthur’s band of renegade outlaws
b. A person who resolves an event unexpectedly
c. The idea that any dispute can and will be solved by physical force
d. A literary device in which the outcomes of battles are foreshadowed by the author
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14: Who says the following: “But I unfortunately was born at the wrong end of time, and I have to live backwards to front, while surrounded by a lot of people living forwards from behind.”
a. Sir Ector
b. King Arthur
c. Merlyn
d. King Pellinore
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15: Who says the following: “But what creature could be so low as to go about in bands, to murder others of its own blood?”
a. Archimedes
b. Merlyn
c. Lyo-Lyok, the wild goose
d. Mrs. P, the perch
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