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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Buliwyf dressed?
(a) With the armor from the dwarfs.
(b) In greens and browns to represent the earth.
(c) All in black.
(d) All in white.

2. What do the warriors follow?
(a) A trail of blood.
(b) Mostly the scent of the wendols.
(c) Discarded bones from food.
(d) Hoofprints.

3. How many of the wendol does Ibn slay?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

4. What does Buliwyf do when he comes to Ibn?
(a) Hands him a glass of wine.
(b) Tells him to go to bed.
(c) Slaps him in the face.
(d) Sits down beside him.

5. What do some of the horses manage to do with the fence?
(a) Jump it.
(b) Knock it down.
(c) Get their heads over it.
(d) Fall against it.

6. Why doesn't Ibn leave Hurot?
(a) He has no horse to ride.
(b) He has fallen in love.
(c) Rothgar will not let him.
(d) Herger has asked him to stay.

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

8. What does Herger do when Ibn falls asleep while waiting for the wendols?
(a) Covers him with dirt.
(b) Pours a bucket of water over him.
(c) Kicks him in the shins.
(d) Shoots an arrow at his head.

9. What does Ibn ask Herger as they near Hurot?
(a) What they are going to do next.
(b) If the wendol are gone.
(c) If the wendol will return.
(d) If Buliwyf knows what he is doing.

10. What does Herger do after he talks to Ibn?
(a) Leaves to talk to Buliwyf.
(b) Slaps Ibn in the face as is custom during a feast.
(c) Falls asleep.
(d) Finds a woman.

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

12. With what is the valley they come to filled?
(a) Dead animal carcasses.
(b) Crude huts.
(c) A huge lake.
(d) Wendol children.

13. Why does Herger tell Ibn a lot of information?
(a) Buliwyf has told him to do that.
(b) Ibn has proven his worth.
(c) He is drunk.
(d) Rothgar wants Ibn to know what he faces.

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

15. What does Ibn find distasteful about the Northwomen with whom he spends time the night after the first battle, besides her physical appearance?
(a) Her odor.
(b) Her chaste behavior.
(c) Her speech.
(d) Her crude jokes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ibn see when one of the warriors shouts?

2. What does Herger continually ask Ibn about?

3. How do the Northmen view warriors who die in bed or as old men?

4. What does Herger tell Ibn when Ibn says he does not want to go to the wendol's mother?

5. Why are the remaining wendol marching on Hurot?

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