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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 is the land like that Bjarni sees first?
(a) Wooded with low hills.
(b) Mountainous and icy.
(c) Desolate and bare.
(d) Heavily populated.

2. How does Bjarni spend the rest of his days?
(a) Sick in bed with the plague.
(b) Sailing the seas looking for that land.
(c) Farming with his father in Greenland.
(d) As a pauper.

3. Who is Leif?
(a) The brother of Eirik the Red.
(b) The son of Eirik the Red.
(c) The founder of the colony on Iceland.
(d) A messanger from the king.

4. Who does Bjarni travel to see "some time later" after sighting the land to the west?
(a) Earl Eirik in Norway.
(b) Freydis, Eirik's daughter.
(c) The Thorsness Assembly.
(d) Eirik the Red.

5. How do Thorstein and his men spend the summer?
(a) Preparing to leave Greenland.
(b) Lost at sea.
(c) Searching the coast for Thorvald.
(d) Cutting wood and grapes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thorvald decide they should do when spring arrives?

2. How do Thorstein and much of his crew die?

3. Who decides to further explore Vinland?

4. What causes a fight between Eirik and Thorgest?

5. What happens to Tyrkir?

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