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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. How is a man's possessions handled in the Northmen culture when he dies?
(a) They are divided into three parts.
(b) They all go to his wife.
(c) They are burned.
(d) They are given away to the poor.

2. How does Buliwyf find the concept of blessing food?
(a) Blasphemous.
(b) Disgusting.
(c) Humorous.
(d) Intriguing.

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

4. What does Ibn learn during the funeral of the Northmen leader?
(a) Thorkel wants to marry Buliwyf's daughter.
(b) Buliwyf wants Ibn to marry his sister.
(c) Wyglif wants to stay king.
(d) Thorkel desires the throne.

5. What is the purpose of a Northman's burial ritual?
(a) To help the wife grieve.
(b) So the poor in the community are taken care of by the dead.
(c) To keep down disease.
(d) To send the dead man quickly to Paradise.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Buliwyf find in his destroyed village?

2. How long was Ibn gone?

3. How prevalent is adultery among the Oguz?

4. From whom has a letter arrived where Ibn lives?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ibn describe the Northmen?

2. Where does the party stay for two days and what does Ibn find out about Northmen behavior before a sea voyage?

3. How long was Ibn gone, and how did he tell about his journey?

4. What does Ibn learn about Thorkel during the burial rites?

5. What do Buliwyf and his group find in a farmhouse and what does Buliwyf find there that he smashes?

6. How do the Northmen hold funeral rites for their leader?

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

8. What kind of man is Ibn, and how much has he traveled before this journey?

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

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

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