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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aud Do in Orkney after she hears of the death of Thorstein the Red?
(a) Seeks vengence for her husband's death.
(b) Gives away his daughter, Groa, in marriage.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Raises her grandchildren.

2. Who is Karlsefni?
(a) A traveler from Norway who marries Gudrid.
(b) None of the above.
(c) Gudrid's brother.
(d) Thorstein's cousin who comes to support Gudrid.

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

4. What do Thorvald and his men do with the natives they encounter?
(a) Trade.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Fight.
(d) Attempt to communicate.

5. What does Thorvald die of?
(a) He is murdered by a shipmate.
(b) A fall onto rocks.
(c) A wound in his armpit.
(d) A serious illness.

6. What is Eirik sentenced with by the Thorsness Assembly?
(a) Adultery.
(b) Murder.
(c) Five years of exploration service for the king.
(d) Outlawry.

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

8. What is the general consensus about Freydis after her trip to Vinland?
(a) She can command ship like a man.
(b) No one thinks anything but ill of her and her family.
(c) She is plagued by misfortune.
(d) She earned the title of explorer.

9. Who is Leif?
(a) The son of Eirik the Red.
(b) A messanger from the king.
(c) The brother of Eirik the Red.
(d) The founder of the colony on Iceland.

10. What happens to Tyrkir?
(a) He hears strange sounds and follows them.
(b) He gets separated from the other men.
(c) He gets into a fight with Leif and leaves by himself.
(d) He gets lost.

11. Who tries to join Leif Eiriksson in his journey but was injured at the last moment?
(a) A Christian missionary.
(b) Bjarni.
(c) His father.
(d) His wife.

12. How does Bjarni spend the rest of his days?
(a) Sailing the seas looking for that land.
(b) As a pauper.
(c) Farming with his father in Greenland.
(d) Sick in bed with the plague.

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

14. 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.

15. What size crew does Leif Eiriksson take with him?
(a) Thirty five men.
(b) Just himself and two close friends.
(c) Four ships, abundantly manned.
(d) A barely sufficient skeleton crew.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Leif and his men notice about the days on this new land compared to Greenland or Iceland?

2. Where does the search party find Tyrkir?

3. What causes the Bjarni to lose his bearings at sea?

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

5. What do Thorvald and his men see further up the fjord?

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