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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Grænlendinga Saga, Chapters 7 - 9, Karlsefni in Vinland, Freydis in Vinland, Karlsefni's Descendants.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the land like that Bjarni sees first?
(a) Mountainous and icy.
(b) Wooded with low hills.
(c) Heavily populated.
(d) Desolate and bare.
2. Leif names the second land that he and his crew land on after a natural resource on it. What resource is this?
(a) Wide grasslands.
(b) A fresh water spring.
(c) The woods.
(d) Gold.
3. Where do the men bury Thorvald?
(a) Krossaness, the place he thought suitable for a home.
(b) At sea.
(c) In Greenland.
(d) At the houses that Leif built.
4. What do the lumps on the beach Thorvald sees turn out to be?
(a) Dead men.
(b) Upside down skin boats with men under them.
(c) Piles of sand hiding an ambush.
(d) Ruins.
5. How do Thorstein and his men spend the summer?
(a) Lost at sea.
(b) Searching the coast for Thorvald.
(c) Preparing to leave Greenland.
(d) Cutting wood and grapes.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what way does Freydis first break her word?
2. What is Eirik sentenced with by the Thorsness Assembly?
3. What size crew does Leif Eiriksson take with him?
4. What do Leif and his men find on the return trip to Greenland?
5. According to the prophecy, where will Gudrid go on pilgrimage?
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