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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. When does Buliwyf have seven horses prepared?
(a) In the late afternoon after the second attack.
(b) Mid-morning after the second attack.
(c) As soon as Ibn's wounds are tended.
(d) The night after the second attack.

2. What does Ibn see when one of the warriors shouts?
(a) A large bear sniffing the berm.
(b) A massive bonfire.
(c) A group of horsemen arrayed in a line.
(d) Firery points floating through the air.

3. Why do the men not take a break between battles?
(a) They are still hyped up.
(b) They will lose any battle they do not pursue immediately, they think.
(c) So the wounded who are going to die can fight their last battle.
(d) It is the way it always is.

4. How do the Northwomen differ from Ibn's culture in their mannerisms?
(a) They are more demur.
(b) They are bolder.
(c) They are warriors also.
(d) They are brawdy but chaste.

5. What does Herger tell Ibn about the possible near future?
(a) The wendols will now leave them alone.
(b) Buliwyf has now fulfilled his obligation and will leave Rothgar Hall.
(c) The Northmen will move to another location.
(d) The mists and the wendols will come again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Buliwyf ask Ibn about the dwarfs?

2. What do the Northmen do with great happiness following the first battle?

3. Why do the women cover Hurot with water?

4. How does Ibn feel about what Herger told him about Buliwyf's plan?

5. What litters the ground of Rothgar's compound?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do the riders see when they look down on an encampment?

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

4. What do Herger and Ibn think of each others' religion?

5. How does Wiglif end up dead?

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

7. What does the dwarf soothsayer tell Buliwyf?

8. What does Ibn see as the wendol approach at night and what does he think it is?

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

10. What do the warriors do when they reach a region of caves?

(see the answer keys)

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