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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 earned the title of explorer.
(d) She is plagued by misfortune.

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

3. Where does Eirik propose to go when he leaves Iceland?
(a) To explore land sighted to the west.
(b) He is set to sea with no guide or plan.
(c) To take revenge.
(d) Back to Norway.

4. What does Leif do when he hears rumors about what happened in Vinland.
(a) Confront Freydis and demand the truth.
(b) Torture three of Freydis's men until he learns the truth.
(c) Ignore the rumors.
(d) Travel to Vinland to determine the truth.

5. Why does Thorstein wish to return to Vinland?
(a) To acquire a stock of lumber.
(b) To fetch Thorvald's body.
(c) To make more wine from the grapes.
(d) None of the above.

6. Which of the following best characterizes the natural resources and weather on the land that Leif and his men explore?
(a) Few and cold.
(b) Abundant and mild.
(c) Sufficient and tolerable.
(d) Sparse and changeable.

7. In what way does Freydis first break her word?
(a) In her promises to share everything equally.
(b) In what she pays the brothers.
(c) In the number of men she takes on the trip.
(d) By directing them to take her places they do not expect.

8. What is different about the trip Karlsefni makes to Vinland from the previous ones?
(a) All of the above.
(b) He takes more men and five women who will all share profits.
(c) He takes livestock.
(d) He intends to make a permanent settlement.

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

10. What arrangement does Karlsefni make with Leif regarding the houses in Vinland?
(a) Leif is willing to lend Karlsefni the houses, but not give them.
(b) Karlsefni can use them until Leif arrives again.
(c) Karlsefni buys the houses from Leif.
(d) Leif gives him the houses on the condition that the settlement is named after him.

11. 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) Icy, rocky, and worthless.
(d) Dense forest with much lumber.

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

13. What does Eirik do when he finds Greenland?
(a) Decides to find land farther west.
(b) Returns immediately to Iceland.
(c) Explores it and name places for three years.
(d) Declares the land uninhabitable.

14. Where do the men bury Thorvald?
(a) At the houses that Leif built.
(b) In Greenland.
(c) At sea.
(d) Krossaness, the place he thought suitable for a home.

15. Why does Eirik name the land he discovered "Greenland"?
(a) To give homage to the god of crops.
(b) Because there was lush green grass around the coast.
(c) To attract people there.
(d) Because the rocks and glaciers have a greenish tint.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Thorvald and his men moor the boat and wander on shore?

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

3. What do Thorvald and his men do with the natives they encounter?

4. How do Thorstein and much of his crew die?

5. What does Thorvald decide they should do when spring arrives?

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