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. How is Leif Eiriksson described?
(a) Loyal, impulsive, and tempermental.
(b) Strong, shrewd, and moderate.
(c) Intelligent, ambitious, and proud.
(d) Strong, impulsive, and violent.

2. What do Leif and his men find on the return trip to Greenland?
(a) A strong current that makes the trip fast and easy.
(b) Another large and bountiful island.
(c) A group of people stranded on a reef.
(d) An abandoned ship they manage to take home as well.

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

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

5. Why do the men wish to stop at this land?
(a) They are afraid of getting further lost.
(b) The land is rich and beautiful.
(c) For wood and water.
(d) They think it is Greenland.