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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Eirik's Saga, Chapters 12 - 14, Thorvald Eiriksson Dies, Bjarni Grimolfsson's Death, Karlsefni's Descendants.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Gudrid not want to help Thorbjorg?
(a) She considers the work beneath her.
(b) Because she is a Christian.
(c) She is shy.
(d) Thorbjorg scares her.

2. Where do Karsefni and the crew spend their third Winter?
(a) Hope.
(b) Uniped-Land.
(c) Markland.
(d) Straumford.

3. How many ships and men travel with Karlsefni to Greenland?
(a) One ship with a bare skeleton crew.
(b) Twenty heavily laden ships.
(c) Two ships with about forty men on each.
(d) One ship loaded with almost one hundred men.

4. What dispute arises between Thorhall and Karlsefni?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Thorhall wanted to explore north, but Karlsefni thought they should sail south.
(c) Thorhall claims Karlsefni is unjust and greedy.
(d) A religious dispute.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thorvald die of?

2. Who initializes the marriage between Karlsefni and Gudrid?

3. What does Leif find on his way home from Vinland?

4. What happens on the trip to Greenland?

5. How does Thorbjorn announce his departure to Greenland?

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