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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Thorvald and his men see further up the fjord?
(a) Ruins of great cities.
(b) Cattle.
(c) Settlements.
(d) Planted crops.

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

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

4. What does Herjolf take with him when he emigrates to Greenland?
(a) Many boats of goods.
(b) Weapons.
(c) A plague.
(d) A Christian.

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

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

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

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

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

10. How is Tyrkir described?
(a) Large, strong, and oafish.
(b) Small, easily frightened, and learned.
(c) Puny, shifty eyed, and clever with his hands.
(d) Sickly, clever, and traitorous.

11. What does Freydis ask of one of the brothers?
(a) To supply her with extra food.
(b) To return to Greenland and bring Leif.
(c) To murder his brother.
(d) If he will trade ships so she can leave.

12. How long does Eirik spend exploring Greenland?
(a) Three years.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Twelve years.
(d) Six months.

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

14. Who accompanies Thorstein and his men to Vinland?
(a) An embassador from Earl Eirik.
(b) A Christian missionary.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Gudrid, Thorstein's wife.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bjarni worry about the trip to Greenland?

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

3. What does Aud have erected at Kross Hills?

4. What does Thorvald die of?

5. What do Leif and his crew decide to do regarding their discovery of this land?

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