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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. When the natives return for a third time, what happens?
(a) They trade many iron tools to the natives.
(b) They go hunting together.
(c) The women cook together.
(d) They fight.

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

3. What do Karlsefni and his men find when they stop for a fortnight when they sail south?
(a) All of the above.
(b) A lake they can sail to up a river.
(c) Streams teeming with fish.
(d) Wild wheat and grapes.

4. Who is Thorfinn Karlsfni?
(a) An embassador from the king of Norway.
(b) A Norwegian merchant.
(c) The son of the Icelandic king.
(d) A sea going merchant of distinction from Iceland.

5. What washes up on the shore over the winter when they are hungry?
(a) Six sea lions.
(b) An abandoned ship.
(c) A whale.
(d) None of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the glittering thing turn out to be?

2. What happens on the trip to Greenland?

3. Where do Karlsefni and his men spend the next winter?

4. What do Haki and Hekja come back with?

5. What does Sigrid see in her vision?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Eirik the Red do upon departing for Vinland that he suspects causes him to fall off his horse? What does he do to resolve it?

2. How does Karlsefni's mother feel about Gudrid when she meets her and how does that change over time?

3. Explain Sigrid's vision, including where she was when she had it and the three individuals in her vision she identifies.

4. How do Haki and Hekja come to be on the expedition to Vinland? Where are they from?

5. Explain the interchange between Bjarni and the young Icelander. What are the circumstances and what is the result?

6. What are the first impressions that Karlsefni and Eirik the Red make on each other? How do they do this?

7. What happens to those that stay in Bjarni's ship and those that leave in the small boat?

8. How and why does Einar pursue Gudrid in marriage?

9. Explain why the small boat on Bjarni's ship would not sink while the large one was about to.

10. Describe Thorhall and explain why he is on the expedition to Vinland.

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