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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who foretells the mists will come the night after the feast?
(a) The Dwarf Seer.
(b) The Angel of Death.
(c) The King.
(d) The Herald.

2. What language do Herger and Ibn share?
(a) Greek.
(b) Arabic.
(c) Latin.
(d) Turkish.

3. What kind of toast does Wiglif make to Buliwyf?
(a) A very long, rambling toast.
(b) The traditional toast to a man about to die.
(c) He makes no toast.
(d) One that has both praise and insult.

4. What does Ibn say when he is writing about something he saw?
(a) This is probably true.
(b) I do not expect to be believed.
(c) Anyone can see this is true.
(d) I saw this with my own eyes.

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

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

7. 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.

8. Who sent Ibn on his journey?
(a) The King of Baghdad.
(b) The King of Mesopotamia.
(c) His mother.
(d) The Prince of Siam.

9. What does Buliwyf do with a small stone carving they find in the farmhouse?
(a) Place it over the graves they dig for the farm family.
(b) Bury it.
(c) Put it in his pocket.
(d) Throw it down and shatter it.

10. What does Ibn do where they stop?
(a) Hires a wheel wright to fix the wagon.
(b) Rents a room until he is better.
(c) Give the man many gifts.
(d) Have a healer look after the horse.

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

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

13. What is the usual distance between each river crossing?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) A week.
(c) One day.
(d) Two to four days.

14. What amazes Ibn about the hall?
(a) The number of women in the hall.
(b) Its elegance.
(c) Its low ceilings.
(d) The paintings on the wall.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the warriors told to leave outside the hall?

2. Where is a dead Northman's body placed?

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

4. In what does Ibn record his journey?

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

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