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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Appendix: The Mist Monsters, Sources, and A Factual Note on Eaters of the Dead.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Northwomen look like?
(a) Tall and pale with blue eyes.
(b) Short, thin and muscular.
(c) Short and stocky.
(d) Tall with usually black hair and green eyes.

2. About what people does Ibn begin writing about in Chapter Two?
(a) The Britons.
(b) The Bulgars.
(c) The Northmen.
(d) The Turks.

3. Why do the warriors beat their shields on the ship?
(a) To scare any other ships in the area.
(b) To set up a rhythm for the rowers.
(c) To pray for good wind.
(d) To scare away the sea monsters.

4. Why does Herger ride forward to talk to Buliwyf?
(a) He wants to tell him the quote Ibn said to him.
(b) He doesn't want to ride with a coward.
(c) He wants to be one of the first to encounter any fighting.
(d) He wants to find out their strategy.

5. What does Ibn become by the end of Chapter Four?
(a) The thirteenth warrior.
(b) The ambassador to the Northmen.
(c) The husband of Buliwyf's sister.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ibn ask Herger as they near Hurot?

2. How does Ibn list the rivers he has crossed?

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

4. What does Ibn notice the Northmen fear?

5. What was the motive for Crichton to write "Eaters of the Dead"?

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