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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Eirik's Saga, Chapters 3 - 4, Gudrid Goes to Greenland, Gudrid is Told Her Future.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What size crew does Leif Eiriksson take with him?
(a) A barely sufficient skeleton crew.
(b) Thirty five men.
(c) Four ships, abundantly manned.
(d) Just himself and two close friends.

2. What is the general consensus about Freydis after her trip to Vinland?
(a) She is plagued by misfortune.
(b) She can command ship like a man.
(c) No one thinks anything but ill of her and her family.
(d) She earned the title of explorer.

3. What does Leif Eiriksson do with the news of the land sighted to the west?
(a) He and a crew still his father's ship and leave to explore.
(b) He starts building his own boat, despite prostestations.
(c) He visits Bjarni and buys his ship.
(d) He is made a retainer at Earl Eiriks courst and ordered to explore.

4. What do Leif and his crew do when their ship becomes grounded at low tide near the shore of a new land?
(a) Dig a trench to float the boat.
(b) Remove supplies and abandon the boat.
(c) Observe the land from a distance until high tide returned.
(d) Impatiently run ashore to explore.

5. Why does Thorbjorn decide to travel to Greenland with Eirik the Red?
(a) To hide Gudrid from Einar.
(b) The prospect of adventure.
(c) Political ambition.
(d) Financial difficulties.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the land like that Thorvald and his men see to the west?

2. What does Tyrkir find?

3. Who accompanies Thorstein and his men to Vinland?

4. What does Thorbjorg tell Gudrid?

5. What do Eirik's slaves do that caused problems?

(see the answer key)

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