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

2. What does Herger tell Ibn when Ibn says he does not want to go to the wendol's mother?
(a) He is a coward.
(b) It is a great honor to go.
(c) They will kill him if he does not go.
(d) Herger will climb with him.

3. What do the dwarfs make that the Northmen prize?
(a) Weapons.
(b) Stone catapults.
(c) Jewelry with gems.
(d) Body armor.

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

5. What do the Northwomen look like?
(a) Tall with usually black hair and green eyes.
(b) Tall and pale with blue eyes.
(c) Short and stocky.
(d) Short, thin and muscular.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens the night of Buliwyf's visit to the dwarfs?

2. What does a dwarf tell Buliwyf about the attack in the desert of dread?

3. What do the wendols look like when not dressed for war?

4. What does Buliwyf ask Ibn about the dwarfs?

5. What does Ibn find distasteful about the Northwomen with whom he spends time the night after the first battle, besides her physical appearance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one of the new defenses around Hurot and what do the women do with water and why do they do it?

2. What does Herger tell Ibn about the wendol's mother?

3. What is the landscape like in the Desert of Dread?

4. How does Ibn feel when he looks at the cliffs, what does he tell Herger and what does Herger tell him?

5. How does Wiglif end up dead?

6. What does Buliwyf tell the men to do once they have scaled the cliffs and how is Ibn feeling?

7. What does Herger tell Ibn about why the Vikings are not more excited after the first battle?

8. How does Ibn meet up and get to know a Northwoman?

9. What do the dwarfs give the warriors and what do they say to Buliwyf's question about a successful attack?

10. What does Buliwyf do as they are heading back to Rothgar's Hall and why? What does Ibn think about Herger's information?

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