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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Northmen do with great happiness following the first battle?
(a) Bury their dead.
(b) Hail their king.
(c) Plan their next strategy.
(d) Congratulate Buliwyf.

2. When does Buliwyf have seven horses prepared?
(a) As soon as Ibn's wounds are tended.
(b) In the late afternoon after the second attack.
(c) The night after the second attack.
(d) Mid-morning after the second attack.

3. What do the warriors take with them when they leave to find the glowworm?
(a) A cauldron of holy water.
(b) The stone pregnant woman.
(c) Four hounds.
(d) The bear head that was left.

4. Why do the women cover Hurot with water?
(a) It is Holy water which will repel the enemy.
(b) The wendols are afraid of water.
(c) So the warriors won't get dehydrated.
(d) To keep the glowworm from setting it afire.

5. To where do the warriors head when they leave the wendol camp?
(a) The mountains.
(b) Rothgar's Hall.
(c) The lake.
(d) To the ocean.

6. What does Herger warn Ibn about approaching?
(a) Exceptionally beautiful women.
(b) Their temple dedicated to Odin.
(c) King Rothgar.
(d) A lone wedol.

7. How do the Northwomen differ from Ibn's culture in their mannerisms?
(a) They are brawdy but chaste.
(b) They are warriors also.
(c) They are more demur.
(d) They are bolder.

8. Why does the group dismount when they come to the region of caves?
(a) Dwarfs are afraid of horses.
(b) The horses need to rest.
(c) He is checking the ground for footprints.
(d) It is too rocky for horses to be ridden.

9. Where does the wendol's mother live?
(a) In the desert of dread.
(b) High on a mountain.
(c) In a cave beneath the cliffs.
(d) In another land across the ocean straits.

10. What does Buliwyf want Ibn to do?
(a) Be ready to leave in the morning.
(b) Send people to teach the Northmen about Islam.
(c) Write the story of Buliwyf's heroism.
(d) Stay at Hurot when they go to the glowworm.

11. Why does Buliwyf talk slowly to Ibn?
(a) Buliwyf talks slowly to everyone.
(b) So Ibn can understand him.
(c) Because he is drunk.
(d) Because Herger has told Buliwyf that Ibn is a little slow.

12. What does Buliwyf ask Ibn about the dwarfs?
(a) If he likes the sword the dwarfs gave Ibn.
(b) If he could find the dwarfs' caves again.
(c) If he understands what the dwarf said.
(d) If he knows any other dwarfs.

13. What do the dwarfs make that the Northmen prize?
(a) Jewelry with gems.
(b) Body armor.
(c) Stone catapults.
(d) Weapons.

14. How do the Northmen view warriors who die in bed or as old men?
(a) As cowards.
(b) As the best there is.
(c) As the leaders in the community.
(d) As very wise.

15. What happens the night of Buliwyf's visit to the dwarfs?
(a) The wendol come but not the mists.
(b) The wendol and the mists come.
(c) The mists do not come.
(d) The mists come but not the wendol.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Ibn wounded during the battle?

2. What do the dwarfs give the warriors?

3. How does Ibn feel about his first battle with the wendol?

4. With what is the valley they come to filled?

5. What does Buliwyf tell Ibn about Ibn's knowledge of the Northmen?

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