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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Thorkel try to buy?
(a) Hjardarholt.
(b) Laudar.
(c) Laexdala.
(d) Saelingsdale.

2. Who dies in the Breidafjord?
(a) Thorkel.
(b) Olaf.
(c) Gert.
(d) Bolli.

3. Where is Kjartan ambushed?
(a) Hjardarholt.
(b) Svinidale.
(c) Laugar.
(d) Laxdaela.

4. What is offered as compensation for the death of Helgi?
(a) Property.
(b) Blood-friendship.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Money.

5. What does Halldor give Bolli?
(a) A hug.
(b) A sword.
(c) A bracelet.
(d) A book.

6. What is the name of Kjartan's estate?
(a) Hjardarholt.
(b) Aesland.
(c) Svindale.
(d) Laugar.

7. What does Bolli offer that Kjartan refuses?
(a) An amulet.
(b) A gift.
(c) A sword.
(d) A handshake.

8. Who is Kalf Asgeirsson?
(a) Asgeir's son.
(b) Kjartan's traveling partner.
(c) Bolli's nemesis.
(d) Gudrun's brother.

9. When Bolli visits her, what does he want to learn about?
(a) What her favorite residence was.
(b) What experience she wants to have now.
(c) Who her favorite child was.
(d) Whom she loved most of her husbands.

10. What does Gudrun say about her behavior to her husbands to Bolli?
(a) That she was faithful to each husband she had for however brief their marriage.
(b) That she did not love any of her four husbands.
(c) That she was the most terrible to the one she loved the most.
(d) That she grew more independent from each marriage.

11. Who ambushes Bolli?
(a) Hardbeinsson brothers.
(b) Thorbjornsson brothers.
(c) Olafsson brothers.
(d) Thorbjornsson brothers.

12. With whom does Gudrun trade houses with?
(a) Helgi.
(b) Bolli.
(c) Snorri.
(d) Thorgerd.

13. Who is Hrefna?
(a) Helgi's wife.
(b) Kjartan's wife.
(c) Olaf's wife.
(d) Bolli's wife.

14. Who is Bjorn related to?
(a) Kjartan, Bolli, and Thorkel.
(b) Snorri, Thorgerd, and Melkorka.
(c) Lambi, Helgi, and Olaf.
(d) Gudrun, Bolli, and Gora.

15. With whom does Kjartan have a damaged relationship because he left Iceland?
(a) Olaf.
(b) Melkorka.
(c) Gudrun.
(d) Helgi.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Gudrun's son when she is ready to enact her plans?

2. Whose family has an irresolvable conflict by Chapter 51?

3. What kills Kjartan?

4. Whose second prophesy has come half-true by the end of Chapter 50?

5. Who does Helgi kill?

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