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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What kind of information does Herger give to Ibn?
(a) About his home and famiily.
(b) About the wendol's origin.
(c) About the original fight between the wendol and Northmen.
(d) About the wendol's mother.

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

9. 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) The Northmen will move to another location.
(d) Buliwyf has now fulfilled his obligation and will leave Rothgar Hall.

10. How many shields does a man get when in a Viking duel?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) None.

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

12. What does the landscape look like when it changes?
(a) A sandy desert.
(b) A forest with widely spaced trees.
(c) Plains with high grass.
(d) A soggy, damp desert.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What shocks Ibn about the Northmen's attitude after the first battle?

2. Why do the men not take a break between battles?

3. For what does Buliwyf ask the dwarfs?

4. What does Herger warn Ibn about approaching?

5. How many wendol guard the entrance to the mother's home?

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