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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Eirik sentenced with by the Thorsness Assembly?
(a) Murder.
(b) Adultery.
(c) Five years of exploration service for the king.
(d) Outlawry.

2. What does Aud have erected at Kross Hills?
(a) A statue of her son.
(b) A shrine to the ancient gods.
(c) Crosses.
(d) A small cottage for her to live in.

3. How is Leif Eiriksson described?
(a) Strong, shrewd, and moderate.
(b) Strong, impulsive, and violent.
(c) Intelligent, ambitious, and proud.
(d) Loyal, impulsive, and tempermental.

4. What does Freydis ask of one of the brothers?
(a) To murder his brother.
(b) To return to Greenland and bring Leif.
(c) To supply her with extra food.
(d) If he will trade ships so she can leave.

5. Where do Karlsefni and Gudrid settle for the remainder of their lives?
(a) Back on Vinland.
(b) In Iceland.
(c) In Greenland.
(d) In Norway.

6. What happens between Thorgest and Eirik when Eirik returns to Iceland?
(a) A reconciliation is reached.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Eirik is deated.
(d) Thorgest and Eirik battle again.

7. What does Bjarni do when he hears Herjolf has moved to Greenland?
(a) Takes men to bring him back to Iceland.
(b) Assumes his rank and position in Iceland.
(c) Immediately sets off there in his ship.
(d) Prepares a mass emigration to follow.

8. 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.

9. What happens after the fight with Thorgest?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Thorgest scours the country looking for Eirik.
(c) Eirik is sentenced to outlawry.
(d) Eirik hides and then flees the island.

10. How is Tyrkir described?
(a) Small, easily frightened, and learned.
(b) Sickly, clever, and traitorous.
(c) Large, strong, and oafish.
(d) Puny, shifty eyed, and clever with his hands.

11. What happens to Tyrkir?
(a) He hears strange sounds and follows them.
(b) He gets separated from the other men.
(c) He gets lost.
(d) He gets into a fight with Leif and leaves by himself.

12. Who does Bjarni travel to see "some time later" after sighting the land to the west?
(a) The Thorsness Assembly.
(b) Freydis, Eirik's daughter.
(c) Eirik the Red.
(d) Earl Eirik in Norway.

13. What is the general consensus about Freydis after her trip to Vinland?
(a) She can command ship like a man.
(b) No one thinks anything but ill of her and her family.
(c) She is plagued by misfortune.
(d) She earned the title of explorer.

14. Which of the following best describes the sentiment between Freydis and the brothers in Vinland?
(a) General ill will.
(b) Distrust and fear.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Business and formality.

15. Who are the parents of Thorstein the Red?
(a) The Invisible People.
(b) Thurid and Olaf the White.
(c) Eirik the Red and Thurid.
(d) Aud and Olaf the White.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Eirik spend exploring Greenland?

2. Why does Thorstein wish to return to Vinland?

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

4. Why do Eirik and Thorvald leave Norway?

5. What does Thorvald decide they should do when spring arrives?

(see the answer keys)

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