View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Eirik's Saga, Chapters 1 - 2, Gudrid's Ancestry, Eirik Explores Greenland.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What arrangement does Karlsefni make with Leif regarding the houses in Vinland?
(a) Karlsefni can use them until Leif arrives again.
(b) Leif gives him the houses on the condition that the settlement is named after him.
(c) Karlsefni buys the houses from Leif.
(d) Leif is willing to lend Karlsefni the houses, but not give them.

2. Why does Thorstein wish to return to Vinland?
(a) To acquire a stock of lumber.
(b) To fetch Thorvald's body.
(c) None of the above.
(d) To make more wine from the grapes.

3. Why does Bjarni worry about the trip to Greenland?
(a) Because the sea was full of pirates.
(b) Because he did not trust Eirik the Red.
(c) Because it was the wrong season.
(d) Because none of the men had ever sailed there before.

4. Why does Eirik name the land he discovered "Greenland"?
(a) Because the rocks and glaciers have a greenish tint.
(b) To attract people there.
(c) To give homage to the god of crops.
(d) Because there was lush green grass around the coast.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where do Thorvald and his men moor the boat and wander on shore?

4. After her time in Orkney, where does Aud go?

5. What does Aud have erected at Kross Hills?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 324 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample