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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Ibn ask Herger as they near Hurot?
2. What litters the ground of Rothgar's compound?
3. What do the Northwomen look like?
4. What knocks a bear head off of one of the wendol?
5. What do the warriors take with them when they leave to find the glowworm?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do the Northmen do around mid-morning the day after the second battle?
2. What do the riders see when they look down on an encampment?
3. Where does Ibn awake after the battle and what does he see as he walks across the compound?
4. What does Buliwyf do as they are heading back to Rothgar's Hall and why? What does Ibn think about Herger's information?
5. What does Buliwyf do the night the wendol attack after they kill the mother and how does he look?
6. What is one of the new defenses around Hurot and what do the women do with water and why do they do it?
7. How does Herger take care of a man who wants to kill Buliwyf?
8. Why does Buliwyf sit with Ibn and how does Buliwyf talk?
9. What is the landscape like in the Desert of Dread?
10. What do they see in the largest hut of the wendol camp?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:
1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?
2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?
3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?
4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.
5. What type of plot do you think Eaters of the Dead is? Explain your response.
Essay Topic 2
Wyglif's possessions are divided into three parts: one for his family, one to purchase a girl to die with him, and the last to be buried alongside him. A wild party ensues in which the Northmen get very drunk and indulge their pleasures with various women. A woman comes forward to say she will be buried with Wyglif. The girl is taken into a hut where she is raped by all of Wyglif's men. She is then held down by two men while the Angel of Death slits the girl's throat.
1. Discuss the status of slaves in the Northmen society based on the statement above. Use examples from "Eaters of the Dead" and your own research to support your answer.
2. Discuss the status of women in a culture that encourages gang rape of a woman. Use examples from the book and your own research to support your answer.
3. How do you think the above burial practice, if viewed from a modern perspective, might demonstrate the evolution of the human race? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Ibn Fadlan's writing style may be strange to readers. Ibn Fadlan does a wonderful job of baiting the reader's attention. He tells of coming to a forest and seeing mountains with hot springs gushing from them. These areas sound enchanting to the reader but he is left to devise a mental picture on his own. Ibn Fadlan does not offer flowing descriptions of the land he passes through or even comment on how he feels about the journey.
1. Did Ibn's writing style entice you to read farther or did you feel it was not interesting? Why or why not?
Use examples from "Eaters of the Dead" and your own life to support your answer.
2. Would you rather read a book about a place you have never seen with a lot of description or just a minimal so that you can visualize your own picture? Explain why you would prefer one or the other. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
3. Do you think the book would have been more interesting if more of Ibn's feelings had been shown? Why or why not? Use examples from "Eaters of the Dead" and your own life to support your answer.
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