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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. Which of the following best characterizes the natural resources and weather on the land that Leif and his men explore?
(a) Sparse and changeable.
(b) Abundant and mild.
(c) Sufficient and tolerable.
(d) Few and cold.

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

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

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

5. What does Tyrkir find?
(a) A gold vein.
(b) Another boat anchored on upshore.
(c) A human settlement.
(d) Vines and grapes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eirik do when he finds Greenland?

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

3. What do the lumps on the beach Thorvald sees turn out to be?

4. Who is Freydis?

5. Leif names the second land that he and his crew land on after a natural resource on it. What resource is this?

(see the answer key)

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