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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Three, First Contact with the Northmen.

Multiple Choice Questions

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(b) That troops on the border be withdrawn.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

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

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

4. What happens the night before a funeral with the woman who will be killed to be placed with the dead man?
(a) She is drugged.
(b) She is tied to a stake during the celebration.
(c) She is raped by all the men.
(d) She is left for quiet meditation.

5. What is the position of the man in question #15?
(a) Emperor of Rome.
(b) King of the Saqaliba.
(c) War Leader of the Northmen.
(d) King of the Britons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of a Northman's burial ritual?

2. What does Ibn list in his narrative?

3. Where is Ibn sent on his journey?

4. Why is there problems with the Northmen's leader?

5. Why does Ibn liken the Northmen to animals?

(see the answer key)

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