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

2. What happens between Thorgest and Eirik when Eirik returns to Iceland?
(a) Eirik is deated.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Thorgest and Eirik battle again.
(d) A reconciliation is reached.

3. What does Thorvald decide they should do when spring arrives?
(a) Build another ship for cargo.
(b) Sail west along the coast to explore.
(c) Return to Greenland to bring more people.
(d) Divide the group into exploration parties to head out in every direction.

4. What do Leif and his crew decide to do regarding their discovery of this land?
(a) Leave part of the crew to explore while the other part returns to Greenland to report.
(b) Name it after Earl Eirik.
(c) Build houses, spend the winter, and explore.
(d) Take samples of the resources and return to Greenland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What drives Thorvald and his men to shore the second summer?

2. What is the result of the trouble the slaves started?

3. What does Gudrid see that no one else sees?

4. What do Leif and his crew do when their ship becomes grounded at low tide near the shore of a new land?

5. Which of the following most accurately describes the descendants of Karlsefni and Gudrid?

(see the answer key)

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