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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Book 2, Part I Hard Times.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book does Bjartur buy Asta in Section 2?
(a) The Little Mermaid.
(b) Rupunzel.
(c) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
(d) Cinderella.

2. What does Asta Sollilja see for the first time when she goes into town?
(a) The ocean.
(b) A goat.
(c) A circus.
(d) A pregnant woman.

3. What does Bjartur tell Asta on Christmas night in Section 3?
(a) She makes horrible boiled fish.
(b) He is getting a new wife.
(c) He is leaving Summerhouse for a while.
(d) He wants her to be his wife.

4. What did Kolumkilli do when the Norsemen settled in Iceland as told in Section 1?
(a) Taught them to plant corn.
(b) Cursed the land.
(c) Married off his daughter to them.
(d) Taught them to herb sheep.

5. What happens to Gunnvor as she grows older as told in Section 1?
(a) She looks younger and younger.
(b) She divorces her husband and marries a younger man.
(c) She thirsts for human blood.
(d) She continues to have child after child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group is Ingolfur Arnarson Jonsson chairman of, in Section 1?

2. What "relic of the Monopoly" does the grandmother take out on Christmas night?

3. What are the Bernotus Rhymes?

4. What happens to Gullbra?

5. How does Bjartur find his sheep killed on the third day, in Section 3?

(see the answer key)

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