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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ibn notice the Northmen fear?
(a) Fog.
(b) Snow.
(c) Sunshine.
(d) Lightning.

2. What does the herald report during the feast?
(a) They are almost out of ale.
(b) The mists will not come that night.
(c) Another party has arrived.
(d) Wulfgar is there.

3. What does Ibn say about the size of the Northmen?
(a) They are somewhat tall but almost skeletal.
(b) They are short but broad.
(c) They look about the same size as his people.
(d) They are virtual giants.

4. How many sons does Rothgar still have living?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

5. From whom has a letter arrived where Ibn lives?
(a) Niltwin.
(b) Fulati.
(c) Yiltawar.
(d) Habinar.

6. Who does not go with Ibn on his journey with the Northmen?
(a) His interpreter.
(b) His valet.
(c) His brother.
(d) His religious teacher.

7. What town does Herger point out to Ibn when they are on the ship?
(a) London.
(b) Bulger.
(c) Venice.
(d) Cairo.

8. What does Buliwyf find in his destroyed village?
(a) A stone image of the mother.
(b) His sword.
(c) His horse.
(d) His dead wife.

9. What is the differences between Ibn's observations of the Vikings and the general European view of them at that time?
(a) They are not as civilized as thought in Europe.
(b) The Vikings are much more pacifistic than thought.
(c) He said that were not the barbarians Europeans thought.
(d) The Vikings are more matriarchal than thought.

10. How prevalent is adultery among the Oguz?
(a) About ten percent of the men commit adultery.
(b) It does not exist.
(c) Marriage does not include monogamy.
(d) Over half the men and a third of the women take lovers outside marriage.

11. What do the merchants have primarily in their houses?
(a) Beautiful girls.
(b) Weapons.
(c) Religious artifacts.
(d) Cloth and spices.

12. Why does Ibn's party stop after they leave the Oguz?
(a) Ibn is sick.
(b) They are refused passage by a man.
(c) One of their wagons has broken.
(d) A horse has gone lame.

13. What type of houses do merchants of the Northmen use?
(a) Tents.
(b) Large wooden houses.
(c) Houses with stone exteriors.
(d) They build their merchant house in the trees.

14. What does Ibn observe about the Vikings social customs?
(a) They have a very loose social structure.
(b) They have few long time rituals.
(c) They have a strong sense of ritual.
(d) They have no cohesive society.

15. What does Ibn see at the mountains?
(a) Hot springs gushing from them.
(b) Goats that climb sheer cliffs.
(c) A multitude of caves.
(d) Wild men with strange tattoos.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thorkel want to do with Ibn?

2. What kind of clothing do the Northmen wear?

3. With what does Chapter One begin?

4. What are the funeral practices for a man of repute in the Oguz?

5. What does the letter in Chapter One request?

(see the answer keys)

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