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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. What happens the night before a funeral with the woman who will be killed to be placed with the dead man?
(a) She is left for quiet meditation.
(b) She is raped by all the men.
(c) She is drugged.
(d) She is tied to a stake during the celebration.

2. Where is a dead Northman's body placed?
(a) Put into a stone tomb.
(b) Buried in the ground.
(c) On a ship.
(d) Burned in the trees.

3. What do the warriors see on the ground at the farmhouse where they stop?
(a) A dead horse.
(b) Footprints with claw marks.
(c) A stack of arranged firewood ready to burn.
(d) Two swords.

4. How prevalent is adultery among the Oguz?
(a) About ten percent of the men commit adultery.
(b) Marriage does not include monogamy.
(c) Over half the men and a third of the women take lovers outside marriage.
(d) It does not exist.

5. Who travels first on the boat when crossing the river?
(a) Warriors.
(b) The horses.
(c) Women and children.
(d) All the men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language do Herger and Ibn share?

2. What does Ibn say about the size of the Northmen?

3. What color is the whale that Ibn sees swimming near the boat?

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

5. What does Thorkel want to do with Ibn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a boat that arrives bear and what is the message given to Buliwyf?

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

3. What does Ibn do about leaving at the beginning of Chapter Five, and how does he feel about his journey with the Northmen?

4. How does Chapter One begin and what does the writer say about himself?

5. What is the letter that is mentioned in Chapter One?

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

7. What does Herger ask Ibn about writing, how does Ibn respond and what upsets one of the warriors about writing?

8. What does Ibn and his party see as they walk towards Rothgar's Hall and how do the Viking warriors feel about it?

9. What does Crichton say about Ibn's observations of the Vikings?

10. How does Ibn describe the Northmen?

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