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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four, The Aftermath of the Northmen's Funeral.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the letter in Chapter One request?
(a) That troops on the border be withdrawn.
(b) Someone be sent to the person in question #15.
(c) That someone be sent to help fight the monsters in the mists.
(d) That aid in the form of food be sent.

2. Why are Ibn and his party taken captive?
(a) They have not paid the wheel wright.
(b) They practice the wrong religion.
(c) They are thought to be spies.
(d) They are thought to carry the plague.

3. Where is a dead Northman's body placed?
(a) On a ship.
(b) Buried in the ground.
(c) Put into a stone tomb.
(d) Burned in the trees.

4. What are the funeral practices for a man of repute in the Oguz?
(a) He is encased in a stone tomb.
(b) He is buried a large pit with all his possessions.
(c) He is hung in the trees.
(d) He is burned on a pyre.

5. What does Thorkel want to do with Ibn?
(a) Kill him.
(b) Take him to his village.
(c) Have him initiated into the tribe.
(d) Make him leave immediately.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ibn say about the size of the Northmen?

2. What is Buliwyf ask to do?

3. Who travels first on the boat when crossing the river?

4. What happens the night before a funeral with the woman who will be killed to be placed with the dead man?

5. About what people does Ibn begin writing about in Chapter Two?

(see the answer key)

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