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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose hand in marriage does the stranger ask for in exchange for building the wall in "The Master Builder"?
(a) Ullr's.
(b) Freya's.
(c) Heimdall's.
(d) Lofn's.

2. What is the name of the void where the rivers of the mist flow in?
(a) Ratatosk.
(b) Muspell.
(c) Ymir.
(d) Ginnungagap.

3. What is Odin's golden arm-ring called?
(a) Draupnir.
(b) Megingjord.
(c) Gungnir.
(d) Tyr.

4. By what names does Odin call his two ravens?
(a) Frigg and Freya.
(b) Vor and Frilla.
(c) Huginn and Muninn.
(d) Lofn and Vor.

5. For what Norse goddess is Friday named?
(a) Frilla.
(b) Freya.
(c) Frigg.
(d) Frey.

6. What name do Odin, Ve, and Vili give to the woman they create from the log?
(a) Bergelmir.
(b) Ratatosk.
(c) Embla.
(d) Frilla.

7. Author Neil Gaiman describes reading the adventures of the Mighty Thor as depicted by what American comics artist when he was a child?
(a) Jack Kirby.
(b) James Wilder.
(c) Roger Lancelyn Green.
(d) Mary Addams Thompson.

8. What does Hel name her bowl when she is led to the lightless world?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Love.
(c) Forever.
(d) Food.

9. Why does the narrator say that Thor had gone to the east in the opening of "The Master Builder"?
(a) To fight dragons.
(b) To fight Yggdrasil.
(c) To fight giants.
(d) To fight trolls.

10. What pulls Freya's chariot?
(a) Two cats.
(b) Two goats.
(c) A golden boar.
(d) A stallion.

11. Who is the first of Loki's children that is a serpent and is brought back from the land of the giants in "The Children of Loki"?
(a) Jormungundr.
(b) Lofn.
(c) Narfi.
(d) Ullr.

12. At what land across the rainbow bridge were instructions given to the dwarfs on how to create the chain called Gleipnir?
(a) Narfi.
(b) Ginnungagap.
(c) Hlidskjalf.
(d) Svartalfheim.

13. With whom has Loki had three children in the land of the frost giants in "The Children of Loki"?
(a) Narfi.
(b) Angrboda.
(c) Ullr.
(d) Lofn.

14. What is the world-tree called in "The Players"?
(a) Asgard.
(b) Niflheim.
(c) Yggdrasil.
(d) Ragnarok.

15. What is the name of the ancestor of all the giants?
(a) Ymir.
(b) Bestla.
(c) Frilla.
(d) Ratatosk.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as the most beautiful of all the Aisir in "The Master Builder"?

2. Who did Bor marry and have three sons with?

3. Who is Loki's mother?

4. What land to the south is described as the world of fire in the beginning of time in "Before the Beginning, and After"?

5. What is the name of Sif's son from before her marriage to Thor?

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