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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 do the merchants have primarily in their houses?
(a) Cloth and spices.
(b) Beautiful girls.
(c) Religious artifacts.
(d) Weapons.

2. Why is there problems with the Northmen's leader?
(a) He is ill.
(b) He does not like to fight.
(c) He is too young.
(d) He is unable to have children.

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

4. What type of houses do merchants of the Northmen use?
(a) Houses with stone exteriors.
(b) They build their merchant house in the trees.
(c) Large wooden houses.
(d) Tents.

5. From whom has a letter arrived where Ibn lives?
(a) Habinar.
(b) Niltwin.
(c) Fulati.
(d) Yiltawar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the position of the man in question #15?

2. Who travels first on the boat when crossing the river?

3. What do the warriors see on the ground at the farmhouse where they stop?

4. What are the funeral practices for a man of repute in the Oguz?

5. Why are Ibn and his party taken captive?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ibn say about the Oguz Turks?

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

3. How does Ibn end up telling a story in Rothgar's Hall?

4. What is the letter that is mentioned in Chapter One?

5. What is the river Gayih like and what happens when Ibn crosses it?

6. What kind of man is Ibn, and how much has he traveled before this journey?

7. Why did Ibn Fadlan go on a journey, who sent him, when did he go and what changed his original destination?

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

9. How does Chapter One begin and what does the writer say about himself?

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

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