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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. In what way does Freydis first break her word?
(a) In the number of men she takes on the trip.
(b) In what she pays the brothers.
(c) By directing them to take her places they do not expect.
(d) In her promises to share everything equally.

2. Which of the following best describes the clothes of the prophetess Thorbjorg?
(a) Sparse and simple.
(b) Practical and common.
(c) Elaborate and ornate.
(d) Tattered and loose fitting.

3. What do Thorvald and Eirik do because "of some killings" in Jaederen?
(a) Make weapons.
(b) Move to Iceland.
(c) Seek the protection of the king.
(d) Join a large and powerful clan.

4. Leif names the second land that he and his crew land on after a natural resource on it. What resource is this?
(a) Gold.
(b) Wide grasslands.
(c) A fresh water spring.
(d) The woods.

5. What men come with Aud to Iceland?
(a) Her husband and sons.
(b) Fellow practicians of her craft.
(c) Captive slaves from the British Isles.
(d) A sect of sorcerers from the British Isles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the men bury Thorvald?

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

3. What is the result of the trouble the slaves started?

4. What happens to Tyrkir?

5. Who does Bjarni travel to see "some time later" after sighting the land to the west?

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