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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. How is Tyrkir described?
(a) Small, easily frightened, and learned.
(b) Large, strong, and oafish.
(c) Puny, shifty eyed, and clever with his hands.
(d) Sickly, clever, and traitorous.

2. What does Leif Eiriksson do with the news of the land sighted to the west?
(a) He starts building his own boat, despite prostestations.
(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 visits Bjarni and buys his ship.

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 drives Thorvald and his men to shore the second summer?
(a) The need for lumber.
(b) The sighting of a human settlement.
(c) A fierce gale.
(d) Hunger.

5. How many men and ships return to Vinland with Thorvald?
(a) Nine men in one ship.
(b) Thirty men in three ships.
(c) Thirty men in one ship.
(d) Sixty men in eight ships.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Leif Eiriksson described?

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

3. How do Thorstein and his men spend the summer?

4. Where does Eirik propose to go when he leaves Iceland?

5. What causes the Bjarni to lose his bearings at sea?

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