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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Grænlendinga Saga, Chapters 5 - 6, Thorvald Explores Vinland, Thorstein Eiriksson Dies.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the characteristics of the first land that Leif and his crew land on?
(a) Icy, rocky, and worthless.
(b) Low hills covered in grass.
(c) Mountainous, steep, and forbidding.
(d) Dense forest with much lumber.

2. Why does Thorstein wish to return to Vinland?
(a) To fetch Thorvald's body.
(b) To make more wine from the grapes.
(c) To acquire a stock of lumber.
(d) None of the above.

3. 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.

4. 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 visits Bjarni and buys his ship.
(c) He starts building his own boat, despite prostestations.
(d) He is made a retainer at Earl Eiriks courst and ordered to explore.

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 size crew does Leif Eiriksson take with him?

2. What does Herjolf take with him when he emigrates to Greenland?

3. What is the land like that Bjarni sees first?

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

5. Where does the search party find Tyrkir?

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