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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Who rises to prominence in Chapters 21-30?
(a) Harald.
(b) Kjartan.
(c) Olaf.
(d) Hoskuld.

3. Who does Goddi go to for help when his wife attempts to claim possession of half of his land?
(a) Vigdis Ingjald.
(b) Hoskuld Dala-Kollsson.
(c) Ingjald Saudisle- Priest.
(d) Jorunn Peacock.

4. When Goddi acts like a coward, who is left to defeat Ingjald's people?
(a) Olaf.
(b) Kjartan.
(c) Vigdis.
(d) Hoskuld.

5. What is different about the item that Bolli receives?
(a) It never runs out.
(b) It is magical.
(c) It is multicolored.
(d) It is cursed.

6. Who is Thorkel Eyjolfsson the fourth husband of?
(a) Gudrun.
(b) Freya.
(c) Olaf.
(d) Kjartan.

7. Who is Gudrun's first husband?
(a) Thorvald Halldorsson.
(b) Bolli the Peacock.
(c) Gest Oddleifsson.
(d) Hjalmar Einarsson.

8. How much of Hoskuld's estate does Olaf receive?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 1/5.
(c) 1/4.
(d) 1/3.

9. Who is discovered to have Irish royalty in his or her lineage?
(a) Hoskuld.
(b) Olaf.
(c) Jorunn.
(d) Melkorka.

10. Who grows restless to increase his power and fame?
(a) Thorvald.
(b) Kotkel.
(c) Kjartan.
(d) Bolli.

11. Who is Olaf the son of?
(a) Melkorka and Hoskuld.
(b) Jorunn and Hoskuld.
(c) Freya and Kjartan.
(d) Gudrun and Dalla.

12. Who is the king of Norway?
(a) King Bolli.
(b) King Hoskuld.
(c) King Harald.
(d) King Osvifur.

13. Who is reluctant to part with the family estate and is willing to fight to the death for the land?
(a) Vigdis.
(b) Thorgend.
(c) Olaf.
(d) Hoskuld.

14. When Gudrun meets Gest, how many dreams does she say that she needs help interpreting?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 12.

15. Who does Olaf offer to raise?
(a) Osvifur's nephew.
(b) Hoskuld's daughter.
(c) Thorleik's son.
(d) Thorleik's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the Norwegian that Olaf brings back to Iceland fall in love with?

2. When the inheritor of Hrapp's land drowns, who comes into possession of the land?

3. Who is Hrapp of Hrappstead?

4. Who is Olaf the Peacock the father of?

5. When Olaf the Peacock buys the land, what does he rename it?

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