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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the men not take a break between battles?
(a) They are still hyped up.
(b) They will lose any battle they do not pursue immediately, they think.
(c) It is the way it always is.
(d) So the wounded who are going to die can fight their last battle.

2. What does Herger tell Ibn about the possible near future?
(a) The wendols will now leave them alone.
(b) The mists and the wendols will come again.
(c) Buliwyf has now fulfilled his obligation and will leave Rothgar Hall.
(d) The Northmen will move to another location.

3. Who wakes Ibn after the battle?
(a) Herger.
(b) Buliwyf.
(c) A dog.
(d) A Northwoman.

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

5. How many wendol guard the entrance to the mother's home?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

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

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

8. What does Buliwyf do as the warriors near Hurot?
(a) Stop the men.
(b) Stops for lunch.
(c) Head in a different direction.
(d) Gets off his horse and walks.

9. 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.

10. What kind of injury does Rethel have?
(a) A gash in his head.
(b) A broken thigh.
(c) A stomach wound.
(d) A missing arm.

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

12. 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 crude jokes.
(c) Her speech.
(d) Her chaste behavior.

13. Why does Ibn join the revelry?
(a) He is far from his home.
(b) He is lonely.
(c) He feels he could be born a Northman.
(d) He has given up his religion.

14. What do the Northwomen look like?
(a) Short, thin and muscular.
(b) Tall and pale with blue eyes.
(c) Tall with usually black hair and green eyes.
(d) Short and stocky.

15. What do the dwarfs give the warriors?
(a) A great deal of food.
(b) New body armor.
(c) New swords.
(d) Daggers and rope.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to Ibn's writing after he leaves the Northmen?

3. What does Herger warn Ibn about approaching?

4. What do Herger and Ibn do right before Ibn leaves?

5. What kind of power does Herger say the dwarfs have?

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