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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the warriors of Trelburg clean?
(a) They have hot springs inside.
(b) They wash in the river regularly.
(c) There is 200 days of rain every year.
(d) They swim in the ocean everyday.

2. What does the interpreter tell Ibn to do about the situation of which Ibn is informed at the funeral?
(a) He tells Ibn to leave right after the funeral.
(b) He tells Ibn to kill Thorkel.
(c) He tells Ibn to present his credentials to Buliwyf.
(d) He tells Ibn to wait and see how things turn out.

3. Why do the Northmen fear the item in question #55?
(a) They are sailors.
(b) It can destroy a house.
(c) It confuses them.
(d) It burns their fair skin.

4. What does Herger say is customary behavior for Vikings before a sea voyage?
(a) Sleeping as much as possible.
(b) Praying in Odin's temple.
(c) Visiting family and friends.
(d) Drinking and sport with women.

5. Who is Wulfgar's father?
(a) Thorkel.
(b) Rothgar.
(c) Wyglif.
(d) Buliwyf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the number thirteen correspond to in Viking lore?

2. What does Ibn say when he is writing about something he saw?

3. How is a man's possessions handled in the Northmen culture when he dies?

4. Where is Ibn sent on his journey?

5. How long was Ibn gone?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Ibn's writing style and why does he write like that?

2. Where do the Northmen make landfall, how do they travel next and how does Ibn feel about the traveling? Why do they travel so many hours in a day?

3. How is the Northmen's fear explained to Ibn?

4. What does Ibn say about the Oguz Turks?

5. How does Ibn end up telling a story in Rothgar's Hall?

6. What does Ibn think of Rothgar's Hall when he first sees it and what does Herger say about the hall?

7. What is the river Gayih like and what happens when Ibn crosses it?

8. Why is there no adultery among the Turks?

9. Why was Ibn chosen as the thirteenth warrior?

10. What does Ibn note about the difference between the people at Trelburg and the Northmen and what does he find out there about the troubles at Rothgar's Hall?

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