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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Eirik's Saga, Chapter 5 - 6, Leif Discovers Vinland, Thorstein Eiriksson Dies.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What trouble is there with with Sigrid's corpse?
(a) It kept telling false prophecies.
(b) It smelled terrible in the small house.
(c) It keeps trying to get into bed with Thorstein Eriksson.
(d) It was too large.

2. What causes a fight between Eirik and Thorgest?
(a) Eirik proposes to Thorgest's sister.
(b) Thorgest's wife.
(c) They both felt they should be clan leader.
(d) Bench-boards.

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

4. What does Gudrid see that no one else sees?
(a) More natives gathering in the distance.
(b) A chestnut haired woman in a close fitting tunic.
(c) The ghost of her husband Thorstein.
(d) A vision into the future.

5. What does Leif Eiriksson do with the news of the land sighted to the west?
(a) He visits Bjarni and buys his ship.
(b) He is made a retainer at Earl Eiriks courst and ordered to explore.
(c) He starts building his own boat, despite prostestations.
(d) He and a crew still his father's ship and leave to explore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thorvald use to mark the spot he named Kjalarness?

2. What does Freydis ask of one of the brothers?

3. What nickname is Leif given upon his return to Greenland?

4. What does Aud have erected at Kross Hills?

5. In Eirik's saga, how does Leif encounter Vinland?

(see the answer key)

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