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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. How long are the Northmen on the river for the first leg of Ibn's journey?
(a) A month.
(b) One week.
(c) Four days.
(d) Two weeks.

2. Why are Ibn and his party taken captive?
(a) They are thought to carry the plague.
(b) They are thought to be spies.
(c) They practice the wrong religion.
(d) They have not paid the wheel wright.

3. What is the story about that Ibn told the hall?
(a) A man who does not change his slippers.
(b) A story about Eygpt.
(c) A hunt for the wild boar.
(d) The history of Islam.

4. What does Thorkel want to do with Ibn?
(a) Make him leave immediately.
(b) Take him to his village.
(c) Have him initiated into the tribe.
(d) Kill him.

5. How long was Ibn gone?
(a) Three years.
(b) Six months.
(c) A year.
(d) Two years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first information given about Ibn?

2. What is the essence of the people from question #25 culture?

3. What is the differences between Ibn's observations of the Vikings and the general European view of them at that time?

4. What does the number thirteen correspond to in Viking lore?

5. What does the interpreter tell Ibn to do about the situation of which Ibn is informed at the funeral?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ibn say about the Oguz Turks?

2. What does a boat that arrives bear and what is the message given to Buliwyf?

3. What hits the land right after the burial and what does Ibn notice about the Northmen?

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

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

6. Why is there no adultery among the Turks?

7. What does Ibn do about leaving at the beginning of Chapter Five, and how does he feel about his journey with the Northmen?

8. What does Ibn learn about Thorkel during the burial rites?

9. What do the Northmen merchants have to sell and where do they sell it?

10. What trouble are the Northmen experiencing when Ibn meets them?

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