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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Thord gets married, who is the criminal that he houses?
(a) Thorolf.
(b) Gudrun.
(c) Vigdis.
(d) Kjartan.

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

3. What is the vision about Bolli that Gest has?
(a) Bolli will leave Iceland and become king of Norway.
(b) Bolli will become a priest in Scotland.
(c) Bolli will marry Gudrun and kill his own father.
(d) Bolli will not only kill Kjartan but die because of this murder.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Melkorka eventually marry?

2. What does Hoskuld also purchase in Norway that his wife Jorunn objects to at first, but then accepts?

3. Who is Thorkel Eyjolfsson the fourth husband of?

4. Who is discovered to have Irish royalty in his or her lineage?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Olaf's reputation grow?

2. When Geirmund attempts to leave, what does Thurid do?

3. What is Kjartan and Bolli's relationship at Hjardaholt?

4. What is different about Olaf the Peacock?

5. Describe the period in Scandinavian history at the time the Laxdaela Saga was written.

6. What happens in the aftermath of the murder of Kotkel and his clan?

7. Describe Unn the Deep-Minded.

8. Describe Gudrun's first and second marriages.

9. What happens when Gest meets Gudrun?

10. What happens after Thurid gives Bolli the sword?

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