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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. Who choses Ibn to fulfill the letter's request?
(a) The Count of Syri.
(b) The President of the University.
(c) No one, Ibn volunteers.
(d) The Caliph.

2. How are warriors with extremity wounds treated?
(a) Whiskey is poured on their wounds.
(b) Spiderwebs or hot cloths.
(c) Salt water.
(d) They are given willow bark tea.

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

4. What does Buliwyf do when they see the wendol coming?
(a) Comes out to await the fight.
(b) Yells out orders from his bed.
(c) Stands with the men without his sword.
(d) Nothing, he is too wounded to get up.

5. How does the mist appear when the landscape changes?
(a) It is thick and as high as a man.
(b) It hangs low, near the ground.
(c) It is thin and sparse but covers from ground to sky.
(d) There are no mists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the caves where the warriors are going called?

2. Why does the group dismount when they come to the region of caves?

3. What is the first information given about Ibn?

4. What do the warriors do when they reach Rothgar's hall before embarking from the ship?

5. Why doesn't Ibn leave Hurot?

(see the answer key)

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