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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 and a crew still his father's ship and leave to explore.
(d) He visits Bjarni and buys his ship.

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

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

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

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

6. Who is Thorvald?
(a) The discoverer of Greenland.
(b) The king.
(c) The father of Eirik the Red.
(d) The brother of Eirik the Red.

7. What arrangement does Freydis have with the brothers Helgi and Finnbogi?
(a) They will take her along on their travels if she can pay.
(b) To travel together to Vinland and share equally in the profits.
(c) She hires them to transport her goods.
(d) They will command the ships of her expedition.

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

9. What is Iceland like when Eirik the Red arrives there?
(a) Already well settled.
(b) Occupied by enemies.
(c) A shipping port.
(d) Undiscovered.

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

11. What do Leif and his crew decide to do regarding their discovery of this land?
(a) Take samples of the resources and return to Greenland.
(b) Leave part of the crew to explore while the other part returns to Greenland to report.
(c) Build houses, spend the winter, and explore.
(d) Name it after Earl Eirik.

12. What do Eirik's slaves do that caused problems?
(a) Proposition the neighbor's daughter.
(b) Threaten passerbys.
(c) Steal sheep.
(d) Start a landslide.

13. Where does Eirik go after the fight with Thorgest?
(a) To Norway.
(b) To Dublin to appeal to his relatives for help.
(c) To look for land sighted to the west.
(d) None of these.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Eirik spend exploring Greenland?

2. What do Thorvald and Eirik do because "of some killings" in Jaederen?

3. What do the settlers end up trading to the natives?

4. How does Bjarni spend the rest of his days?

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

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