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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the mist appear when the landscape changes?
(a) It hangs low, near the ground.
(b) There are no mists.
(c) It is thin and sparse but covers from ground to sky.
(d) It is thick and as high as a man.

2. 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.

3. Why does Herger tell Ibn a lot of information?
(a) He is drunk.
(b) Rothgar wants Ibn to know what he faces.
(c) Ibn has proven his worth.
(d) Buliwyf has told him to do that.

4. How many of the wendol does Ibn slay?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

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

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

7. What does Buliwyf ask Ibn about the dwarfs?
(a) If he could find the dwarfs' caves again.
(b) If he understands what the dwarf said.
(c) If he knows any other dwarfs.
(d) If he likes the sword the dwarfs gave Ibn.

8. What do the warriors drink in great quantities at the feast the night of the visit to the dwarfs?
(a) Ale.
(b) Mead.
(c) Wine.
(d) Whiskey.

9. How many weeks does Ibn spend with the Northmen before he is ready to leave?
(a) One.
(b) Several.
(c) Five.
(d) Seven.

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

11. What shocks Ibn about the Northmen's attitude after the first battle?
(a) They are weeping and crying.
(b) They are not more excited.
(c) They are indifferent.
(d) They are so excited they wanted to follow the wendol immediately.

12. What does Buliwyf do as the warriors near Hurot?
(a) Stops for lunch.
(b) Head in a different direction.
(c) Stop the men.
(d) Gets off his horse and walks.

13. Why doesn't Ibn leave Hurot?
(a) He has fallen in love.
(b) Herger has asked him to stay.
(c) Rothgar will not let him.
(d) He has no horse to ride.

14. What does Ibn find distasteful about the Northwomen with whom he spends time the night after the first battle, besides her physical appearance?
(a) Her speech.
(b) Her crude jokes.
(c) Her odor.
(d) Her chaste behavior.

15. How many wendol guard the entrance to the mother's home?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the stone statue of a pregnant woman mean to the wendols?

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

3. What does Herger tell Berger about when the wendol sleep?

4. What do the warriors follow?

5. Why does the group dismount when they come to the region of caves?

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