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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who asks to join King Sweyn?
(a) Ketil.
(b) Canute.
(c) Erik the Red.
(d) Orm.
2. How does Merewyn feel about going to the place Erik speaks of?
(a) Merewyn is as excited as Ketil to go.
(b) Merewyn is indifferent so long as she is not returning to England.
(c) What matters to Merewyn is what her husband's family wants to be.
(d) Merewyn hates to leave Langarfoss.
3. What does Erik tell Ketil when Ketil finds him in the evening?
(a) That Ketil should not have looked so hard for him because Erik would have found Ketil.
(b) That Ketil looked old and tired.
(c) That Erik's wife was expecting their 5th child.
(d) That Erik sailed west to a land where grasslands bordered a central ice cap.
4. How did Poldu remain alive after the attack?
(a) He spoke up, asking the chief if he was such a beast that he would rape his own daughter.
(b) He killed the chief Viking.
(c) He fought back.
(d) He hid from the Vikings.
5. What does Rumon tell Merewyn when they sit down at twilight?
(a) He wants her.
(b) He wants to marry her.
(c) He must go.
(d) He is ill.
6. Who is Sigurd?
(a) Merewyn's captor.
(b) Merewyn's guard.
(c) Merewyn's son.
(d) Merewyn's husband.
7. Why are Sigurd, Merewyn, and Orm disappointed when round the cape?
(a) They see nothing but ice.
(b) They had lost so many on the voyage.
(c) They miss their home in Iceland.
(d) They see grassland, but no trees are in sight.
8. Who dies after a prolonged illness that causes terrible stomach pain?
(a) Ketil.
(b) Orm.
(c) Leif Erikson.
(d) Sigurd.
9. What does Odo use to purchase things for Merewyn?
(a) Food.
(b) Coins.
(c) A cloak.
(d) 2 horses.
10. After Thorbjorg tells Sigurd and Merewyn about Ketil, what does Thorbjorg say about Merewyn ?
(a) Merewyn will have several more children but only 1 will survive to adulthood.
(b) Merewyn will marry the stranger from England in the years ahead.
(c) Merewyn will die in the upcoming epidemic.
(d) Thorbjorg sees big changes for Merewyn and Merewyn will not die in Greenland.
11. How does Rumon react to Poldu's news that Merewyn was taken by the Vikings?
(a) He drops to his knees and prays for her protection.
(b) He is devastated.
(c) He is angry that Poldu didn't stop them.
(d) He cries terribly.
12. Who becomes ill when Ketil goes down to the naust for his daily walk to the Bylgja?
(a) Sigurd.
(b) Brigid.
(c) Orm.
(d) Merewyn.
13. Where do Ketil and his group arrive when Rumon has been gone a fortnight?
(a) Brattalid.
(b) Thingvellir.
(c) Reykjavik.
(d) Greenland.
14. What do Sigurd, Merewyn, Orm, and Ketil call their new home?
(a) Rich Port.
(b) New Tre-Uther.
(c) Ketilvik.
(d) Langarfoss.
15. What does Merewyn ask the Abbess while the Bishop is at the Abby?
(a) Merewyn asks if she may leave the Abbey.
(b) Merewyn asks if she may marry.
(c) Merewyn asks if she may go back to Uther.
(d) Merewyn asks the Abbess permission to enter the nunnery.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Sigurd think about Christianity?
2. Who sails into Greenland in June of 1000?
3. How many ships set sail from the western Fjords in the Spring?
4. Three days after speaking with the Abbot of Glastonbury, where do Merewyn and her children arrive?
5. Where does Merewyn take her aunt's heart after her aunt dies?
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