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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Buliwyf tell Ibn about Ibn's knowledge of the Northmen?
(a) He has learned a lot about them.
(b) He knows practically nothing about them.
(c) He will stay another year and learn more about them.
(d) He has enough information to understand their fight.

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

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

5. How does Ibn feel about what Herger told him about Buliwyf's plan?
(a) Excited.
(b) Surprised.
(c) Cautious.
(d) Frightened.

6. How many weeks does Ibn spend with the Northmen before he is ready to leave?
(a) Seven.
(b) One.
(c) Five.
(d) Several.

7. What is the form of the Korgon?
(a) A wolf pack motivated by hunger.
(b) An avatar of Odin.
(c) A large bear.
(d) A battle formation of the wendol.

8. Why does Herger ride forward to talk to Buliwyf?
(a) He wants to tell him the quote Ibn said to him.
(b) He wants to find out their strategy.
(c) He wants to be one of the first to encounter any fighting.
(d) He doesn't want to ride with a coward.

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

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

11. How are warriors with extremity wounds treated?
(a) They are given willow bark tea.
(b) Whiskey is poured on their wounds.
(c) Salt water.
(d) Spiderwebs or hot cloths.

12. What happens to Ibn's writing after he leaves the Northmen?
(a) He switches to the third person.
(b) He becomes more descriptive.
(c) The manuscript ends abruptly.
(d) It does not change.

13. 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) Finds a woman.
(d) Falls asleep.

14. What does Herger continually ask Ibn about?
(a) Ibn's country.
(b) Ibn's religion.
(c) Ibn's family.
(d) Ibn's reasons for wanting to leave.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Buliwyf do when they offer him onion soup back at the hall?

2. What does a dwarf tell Buliwyf about the attack in the desert of dread?

3. Where is Ibn wounded during the battle?

4. What does Ibn see in the caves at first?

5. What does Ibn find distasteful about the Northwomen with whom he spends time the night after the first battle, besides her physical appearance?

(see the answer keys)

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