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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Grænlendinga Saga, Chapters 7 - 9, Karlsefni in Vinland, Freydis in Vinland, Karlsefni's Descendants.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is different about the trip Karlsefni makes to Vinland from the previous ones?
(a) All of the above.
(b) He intends to make a permanent settlement.
(c) He takes more men and five women who will all share profits.
(d) He takes livestock.

2. What causes a fight between Eirik and Thorgest?
(a) Thorgest's wife.
(b) Bench-boards.
(c) Eirik proposes to Thorgest's sister.
(d) They both felt they should be clan leader.

3. What arrangement does Freydis have with the brothers Helgi and Finnbogi?
(a) They will command the ships of her expedition.
(b) She hires them to transport her goods.
(c) They will take her along on their travels if she can pay.
(d) To travel together to Vinland and share equally in the profits.

4. Why does Thorstein wish to return to Vinland?
(a) To make more wine from the grapes.
(b) To acquire a stock of lumber.
(c) To fetch Thorvald's body.
(d) None of the above.

5. Who gives the prophecy about Gudrid?
(a) A goddess in Gudrid's dream.
(b) Thorstein's corpse.
(c) Thorstein the Black.
(d) The native seer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname is Leif given upon his return to Greenland?

2. What arrangement does Karlsefni make with Leif regarding the houses in Vinland?

3. What does Leif Eiriksson do with the news of the land sighted to the west?

4. Who is Karlsefni?

5. Leif names the second land that he and his crew land on after a natural resource on it. What resource is this?

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