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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Ibn extremely fearful when they are on the cliffs?
(a) He is afraid of heights.
(b) They are near the wendols.
(c) He hates seagulls.
(d) He does not want to scale them.

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

4. 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 could find the dwarfs' caves again.
(d) If he knows any other dwarfs.

5. What are the caves where the warriors are going called?
(a) Home of the cliff dwellers.
(b) Thunder caves.
(c) Wendol caverns.
(d) Land Below.

6. Who does Ibn slay inside the hall?
(a) A wendol who had hidden inside.
(b) No one.
(c) Wiglif.
(d) The herald.

7. What does Ibn see as they enter the land of the wendol?
(a) Poles with the heads of beast on them.
(b) The ground is covered with bones.
(c) Piles of mating snakes.
(d) Stakes with human skulls on them.

8. How does Ibn feel about his first battle with the wendol?
(a) He is scared to death.
(b) He is indifferent.
(c) He is depressed.
(d) He is high on the excitement.

9. What does it mean if a man has a chest wound and his feet and hands are warm?
(a) He will survive.
(b) He will dies within twenty-four hours.
(c) He has a fifty-fifty chance of survival.
(d) He has a fever.

10. What does Herger tell Ibn when Ibn says he does not want to go to the wendol's mother?
(a) It is a great honor to go.
(b) They will kill him if he does not go.
(c) Herger will climb with him.
(d) He is a coward.

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

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

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

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

15. Where is Ibn wounded during the battle?
(a) He is not wounded.
(b) His arm is slashed.
(c) In the leg.
(d) In the shoulder.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Buliwyf talk slowly to Ibn?

3. What do the dwarfs make that the Northmen prize?

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

5. What do some of the horses manage to do with the fence?

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