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

2. 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) Breidafjord.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Ingelborg.

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

4. Who is the king of Norway that is involved in a tense and political dispute with chieftains from Iceland?
(a) Bolli Hjardarholt.
(b) Osvifur Bache-wiig.
(c) King Mykerwalt.
(d) Olaf Tryggvason.

5. Who is the Norwegian that Olaf brings back with him from a trip in search of timber?
(a) Osvifur.
(b) Groa.
(c) Geirmund.
(d) Egil.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Melkorka provide with resources to travel?

2. Who wants Hoskuld to return to Ireland?

3. Who is the king of Ireland?

4. How much of Hoskuld's estate does Olaf receive?

5. Who does Olaf raise on the new land that he has purchased?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the problem King Harald faces with chieftains?

2. Describe Geirmund's marriage.

3. Describe Ketil Flat-Nose.

4. Describe Hoskuld.

5. What happens after Thurid gives Bolli the sword?

6. What is different about Olaf the Peacock?

7. What crime does Thord Gorddi commit and how does he act when he is pursued?

8. What is the horrific dream Olaf the Peacock has of his son?

9. When Kjartan leaves for Norway, what is the political climate there?

10. Why is there tension between Olaf and Thorleik and what does Olaf do to ease it?

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