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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Eirik's Saga, Chapters 7 - 8, Karlsefni in Greenland, Karlsefni Goes to Vinland.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the brothers and their men?
(a) Freydis has her husband Thorvard kill them.
(b) They die from a disease.
(c) They skraelings kill them.
(d) They fight amonst themselves and leave.

2. What does Eirik offer the traders in return for their generosity?
(a) His sons as fellow voyagers.
(b) To stay the winter at Brattahlid.
(c) Gudrid's hand in marriage.
(d) Land near his home in Greenland.

3. Where do the brothers stay when they arrive in Vinland?
(a) In Leif's houses.
(b) All cramped inside the smallest of Leif's houses.
(c) On their ship.
(d) In a house they build farther inland.

4. What does Aud do to the men that she brings to Iceland?
(a) Send them to explore abroad.
(b) Keep them the remainder of their lives as servants.
(c) Gave them land.
(d) Execute them.

5. Why does Karlsefni decide to go to Vinland?
(a) He feels it is his obligation to the king of Norway.
(b) To escape Eirik's wrath about his marriage to Gudrid.
(c) Gudrid wants to see Vinland.
(d) Because of all the discussions about Vinland at Brattahlid.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Freydis first break her word?

2. What does Gudrid see that no one else sees?

3. How does Eirik find Greenland?

4. Why does Leif travel to the Hebrides?

5. What does Herjolf take with him when he emigrates to Greenland?

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