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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the item that Bolli receives?
(a) "Leg Biter."
(b) "Wise Book of Knowledge."
(c) "Amulet of Truth."
(d) "Cave Dweller."

2. What is the name of Ketil Flat-Nose's daughter?
(a) Umma.
(b) Unn.
(c) Kjartan.
(d) Gudrun.

3. What is different about Unn compared to other women of her time?
(a) She is tall, willowy and beautiful.
(b) She is fierce, stout and evil.
(c) She is strong, powerful and unyielding.
(d) She has only one eye and a patch.

4. At the time of the Laxdaela Saga, who is the King in question?
(a) Kjartan.
(b) Deep-Minded Harald.
(c) Gudrun.
(d) Harald Fine-Hair.

5. Where is the estate of Olaf built upon?
(a) Laxdaela.
(b) Reyjkavik.
(c) Hrappstead.
(d) Fallow lands of Scotland.

6. Where will the person be going that Melkorka gives the resources to travel?
(a) Norway.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Iceland.
(d) Ireland.

7. When Olaf the Peacock buys the land, what does he rename it?
(a) Hjardarholt.
(b) Trygvasson.
(c) Hrut.
(d) Freida.

8. Who does Gest meet when Olaf invites him to Hjardarholt ?
(a) Aud and Thord.
(b) Bolli and Kjartan.
(c) Osvifur and Bjorn.
(d) Ketil and Gudrun.

9. What horrific dream does Olaf have about his son?
(a) That he will butchered by Valkryies.
(b) That he will die one day covered in his own blood.
(c) That he will drown in the Atlantic Ocean.
(d) That he will be poisoned by his mother.

10. What is the unsettled area of land that the matriarch and daughter of Ketil Flat-Nose stakes out and divides among her family?
(a) Eindhaven.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Breidafjord.
(d) Ingelborg.

11. Who is Olaf the Peacock the father of?
(a) Kjartan.
(b) Leif.
(c) Hrut.
(d) Gudrun.

12. Since Thord wants so badly to thwart Vigdis's machinations, to whom does he give his property?
(a) Freya.
(b) Kjartan.
(c) Hoskuld.
(d) Gudrun.

13. By the end of Chapter 30, who is at the height of power and prestige?
(a) Bolli.
(b) Gudrun.
(c) Kjartan.
(d) Olaf.

14. When the inheritor of Hrapp's land drowns, who comes into possession of the land?
(a) Thorkel Fringe.
(b) Freya Breidafjord.
(c) Gudrun Hjardarholt.
(d) Harald Trygvasson.

15. Who represent the lowest rungs of Icelandic society?
(a) Kjartan the warrior and Freya the mistress.
(b) Gudrun the adulteress and Harald the thief.
(c) Jorunn the wife and Hoskuld the thief.
(d) Thorolf the outlaw and Melkorka the concubine.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Thord gets married, who is the criminal that he houses?

2. What is the name of Olaf's manor?

3. Who goes to Norway?

4. Who is the irritable woman that Gudrun's second husband is married to simultaneously and then divorces?

5. How does Olaf receive a share of Hoskuld's estate?

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