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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 type of houses do merchants of the Northmen use?
(a) Large wooden houses.
(b) They build their merchant house in the trees.
(c) Houses with stone exteriors.
(d) Tents.

2. How many gates does Trelburg have?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

3. What kind of clothing do the Northmen wear?
(a) Clothing of fine wool.
(b) Clothing of silk and cotton.
(c) Beautiful embroidered jackets.
(d) Very rough clothing.

4. Why does Ibn liken the Northmen to animals?
(a) They fight over women.
(b) Their language sounds like growling.
(c) They eat their food raw.
(d) They do not wash after a toilet.

5. What are the warriors told to leave outside the hall?
(a) Their boots.
(b) Their shields.
(c) Their weapons.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does Ibn record his journey?

2. What happens to the weather after the funeral?

3. What does the boat that arrive contain?

4. Who sent Ibn on his journey?

5. Who foretells the mists will come the night after the feast?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ibn describe the rivers where he travels?

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

3. Why was Ibn chosen as the thirteenth warrior?

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

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

6. How does Ibn describe the Northmen?

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

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

9. What does Ibn say about the Oguz Turks?

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

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