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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Eirik's Saga, Chapters 7 - 8, Karlsefni in Greenland, Karlsefni Goes to Vinland.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Aud's full title?
(a) Aud the White.
(b) Aud the Deep Minded.
(c) Aud the Beautiful.
(d) Aud the Red.

2. Who is Thorvald?
(a) The discoverer of Greenland.
(b) The king.
(c) The brother of Eirik the Red.
(d) The father of Eirik the Red.

3. What does Eirik offer the traders in return for their generosity?
(a) Gudrid's hand in marriage.
(b) To stay the winter at Brattahlid.
(c) His sons as fellow voyagers.
(d) Land near his home in Greenland.

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

5. What is the result of the trouble the slaves started?
(a) Eirik kills some men.
(b) The neighbors kill Eirik's slaves.
(c) Eirik is banished from Haukedale.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Tyrkir?

2. Where do the men bury Thorvald?

3. What does Thorgunna send to Leif in Greenland?

4. How does Bjarni spend the rest of his days?

5. Who tries to join Leif Eiriksson in his journey but was injured at the last moment?

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