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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Buliwyf do when they offer him onion soup back at the hall?
(a) Says he will eat it when it cools.
(b) Drinks it.
(c) Knocks it out of the woman's hand.
(d) Refuses it.

2. With what is the valley they come to filled?
(a) A huge lake.
(b) Crude huts.
(c) Dead animal carcasses.
(d) Wendol children.

3. What does a dwarf tell Buliwyf about the attack in the desert of dread?
(a) It was not a hero's enterprise.
(b) He will infuriate the wendol.
(c) It was a brave thing to do.
(d) It will help the problem.

4. With what are the arms of the throne-like chair found covered?
(a) Animal fur.
(b) Carvings of words.
(c) Blood and brain matter.
(d) Excrement.

5. What shocks Ibn about the Northmen's attitude after the first battle?
(a) They are so excited they wanted to follow the wendol immediately.
(b) They are not more excited.
(c) They are weeping and crying.
(d) They are indifferent.

6. Why does Buliwyf talk slowly to Ibn?
(a) Buliwyf talks slowly to everyone.
(b) So Ibn can understand him.
(c) Because Herger has told Buliwyf that Ibn is a little slow.
(d) Because he is drunk.

7. When does Buliwyf have seven horses prepared?
(a) Mid-morning after the second attack.
(b) As soon as Ibn's wounds are tended.
(c) The night after the second attack.
(d) In the late afternoon after the second attack.

8. Why does the group dismount when they come to the region of caves?
(a) The horses need to rest.
(b) Dwarfs are afraid of horses.
(c) He is checking the ground for footprints.
(d) It is too rocky for horses to be ridden.

9. What does the landscape look like when it changes?
(a) A sandy desert.
(b) A forest with widely spaced trees.
(c) Plains with high grass.
(d) A soggy, damp desert.

10. Where is Ibn wounded during the battle?
(a) In the shoulder.
(b) He is not wounded.
(c) His arm is slashed.
(d) In the leg.

11. Why is Ibn extremely fearful when they are on the cliffs?
(a) He is afraid of heights.
(b) He does not want to scale them.
(c) They are near the wendols.
(d) He hates seagulls.

12. What does Ibn see as they enter the land of the wendol?
(a) Stakes with human skulls on them.
(b) Poles with the heads of beast on them.
(c) Piles of mating snakes.
(d) The ground is covered with bones.

13. Why are the remaining wendol marching on Hurot?
(a) To surrender.
(b) To avenge their mother's death.
(c) To offer presents.
(d) To learn about the Northmen's gods.

14. What does the stone statue of a pregnant woman mean to the wendols?
(a) It is an image of the earth.
(b) It is an image of the dragon's mother.
(c) It is the image of their goddess.
(d) It is an image of their Angel of Death.

15. What do the Northmen do with great happiness following the first battle?
(a) Hail their king.
(b) Plan their next strategy.
(c) Bury their dead.
(d) Congratulate Buliwyf.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Herger tell Ibn a lot of information?

2. What does Herger continually ask Ibn about?

3. What do the dwarfs make that the Northmen prize?

4. Why doesn't Ibn leave Hurot?

5. Why does Herger ride forward to talk to Buliwyf?

(see the answer keys)

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