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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ibn see in the caves at first?
(a) Walls covered in crystals.
(b) Beautiful rock formations.
(c) Steaming, sizzling cauldrons.
(d) Huge carved statues.

2. Why do the women cover Hurot with water?
(a) The wendols are afraid of water.
(b) To keep the glowworm from setting it afire.
(c) It is Holy water which will repel the enemy.
(d) So the warriors won't get dehydrated.

3. What litters the ground of Rothgar's compound?
(a) Bodies of the wendol.
(b) Bodies of dead women, children and men.
(c) Burned wood.
(d) Dozens of torches.

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

5. What is the form of the Korgon?
(a) A wolf pack motivated by hunger.
(b) A battle formation of the wendol.
(c) An avatar of Odin.
(d) A large bear.

6. What does Herger tell Ibn when Ibn says he is afraid?
(a) Stop thinking about the future.
(b) Life is long enough.
(c) Today is a good day to die.
(d) Yesterday is gone.

7. Where does the wendol's mother live?
(a) In a cave beneath the cliffs.
(b) In the desert of dread.
(c) High on a mountain.
(d) In another land across the ocean straits.

8. What does Buliwyf tell Ibn about Ibn's knowledge of the Northmen?
(a) He will stay another year and learn more about them.
(b) He has enough information to understand their fight.
(c) He knows practically nothing about them.
(d) He has learned a lot about them.

9. What does Ibn see when one of the warriors shouts?
(a) Firery points floating through the air.
(b) A group of horsemen arrayed in a line.
(c) A massive bonfire.
(d) A large bear sniffing the berm.

10. How does Ibn leave the Northmen?
(a) On a merchant ship.
(b) With a group seeking Wulfgar.
(c) On Herger's horse.
(d) On foot by himself.

11. Why does Herger tell Ibn a lot of information?
(a) Ibn has proven his worth.
(b) He is drunk.
(c) Buliwyf has told him to do that.
(d) Rothgar wants Ibn to know what he faces.

12. What does Ibn find distasteful about the Northwomen with whom he spends time the night after the first battle, besides her physical appearance?
(a) Her chaste behavior.
(b) Her crude jokes.
(c) Her odor.
(d) Her speech.

13. What do some of the horses manage to do with the fence?
(a) Fall against it.
(b) Jump it.
(c) Get their heads over it.
(d) Knock it down.

14. What knocks a bear head off of one of the wendol?
(a) Bulify's shield.
(b) A large rock thrown by a woman.
(c) Herger's ax.
(d) Ibn's sword.

15. What does Buliwyf want Ibn to do?
(a) Be ready to leave in the morning.
(b) Send people to teach the Northmen about Islam.
(c) Write the story of Buliwyf's heroism.
(d) Stay at Hurot when they go to the glowworm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Herger do when Ibn falls asleep while waiting for the wendols?

2. What do Herger and Ibn do right before Ibn leaves?

3. Where is Ibn wounded during the battle?

4. What does Herger tell Ibn when Ibn says he does not want to go to the wendol's mother?

5. What does the landscape look like when it changes?

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