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

2. What do the lumps on the beach Thorvald sees turn out to be?
(a) Piles of sand hiding an ambush.
(b) Upside down skin boats with men under them.
(c) Dead men.
(d) Ruins.

3. How do Thorstein and much of his crew die?
(a) Disease.
(b) Thirst while they are lost at sea.
(c) In a shipwreck.
(d) In a skirmish with the natives of Vinland.

4. What does Gudrid see that no one else sees?
(a) More natives gathering in the distance.
(b) A chestnut haired woman in a close fitting tunic.
(c) The ghost of her husband Thorstein.
(d) A vision into the future.

5. What does Thorvald die of?
(a) A wound in his armpit.
(b) A serious illness.
(c) A fall onto rocks.
(d) He is murdered by a shipmate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thorvald use to mark the spot he named Kjalarness?

2. How many men and ships return to Vinland with Thorvald?

3. Where do Thorvald and his men moor the boat and wander on shore?

4. What were the characteristics of the first land that Leif and his crew land on?

5. What scares the natives the first time they appear?

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