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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Thorvald use to mark the spot he named Kjalarness?
(a) The old keel of the boat.
(b) A huge rock pointing upwards.
(c) None of the above.
(d) A peak towering overhead.

2. Where do the brothers stay when they arrive in Vinland?
(a) In Leif's houses.
(b) In a house they build farther inland.
(c) All cramped inside the smallest of Leif's houses.
(d) On their ship.

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

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

5. Who gives the prophecy about Gudrid?
(a) The native seer.
(b) Thorstein's corpse.
(c) A goddess in Gudrid's dream.
(d) Thorstein the Black.

6. What do the lumps on the beach Thorvald sees turn out to be?
(a) Dead men.
(b) Upside down skin boats with men under them.
(c) Ruins.
(d) Piles of sand hiding an ambush.

7. What do Leif and his crew do when their ship becomes grounded at low tide near the shore of a new land?
(a) Observe the land from a distance until high tide returned.
(b) Remove supplies and abandon the boat.
(c) Dig a trench to float the boat.
(d) Impatiently run ashore to explore.

8. How do Thorstein and much of his crew die?
(a) In a skirmish with the natives of Vinland.
(b) In a shipwreck.
(c) Disease.
(d) Thirst while they are lost at sea.

9. What nickname is Leif given upon his return to Greenland?
(a) Leif the Leader.
(b) None of the above.
(c) Leif the Lucky.
(d) Leif the Explorer.

10. Why do the men wish to stop at this land?
(a) They think it is Greenland.
(b) For wood and water.
(c) The land is rich and beautiful.
(d) They are afraid of getting further lost.

11. What is the land like that Bjarni sees first?
(a) Desolate and bare.
(b) Wooded with low hills.
(c) Mountainous and icy.
(d) Heavily populated.

12. How does Eirik find Greenland?
(a) He is sailing to sea in a blind fury without destination.
(b) The reports from Gunnbjorn's sightings.
(c) There have been several trips there before.
(d) He gets blown off course.

13. What drives Thorvald and his men to shore the second summer?
(a) A fierce gale.
(b) The need for lumber.
(c) The sighting of a human settlement.
(d) Hunger.

14. How is Leif Eiriksson described?
(a) Intelligent, ambitious, and proud.
(b) Strong, shrewd, and moderate.
(c) Strong, impulsive, and violent.
(d) Loyal, impulsive, and tempermental.

15. Who are the parents of Thorstein the Red?
(a) Thurid and Olaf the White.
(b) Eirik the Red and Thurid.
(c) Aud and Olaf the White.
(d) The Invisible People.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Tyrkir?

2. Leif names the second land that he and his crew land on after a natural resource on it. What resource is this?

3. What do Leif and his men find on the return trip to Greenland?

4. Where do Karlsefni and Gudrid settle for the remainder of their lives?

5. Where does Eirik go after the fight with Thorgest?

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