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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Haki and Hekja leave to do?
(a) Find fresh water.
(b) Report on the settlements sighted to the north.
(c) Start making a map of the area.
(d) Explore the country to the south.

2. How many people could fit in the small boat they had?
(a) All but ten.
(b) All of them, but then no food or water.
(c) Only about ten.
(d) Half the people on board.

3. What does Thorbjorg do for Gudrid?
(a) Makes her a beautiful dress.
(b) Promises the wealthiest man in the land.
(c) Blesses her.
(d) Tells her future.

4. What dispute arises between Thorhall and Karlsefni?
(a) Thorhall claims Karlsefni is unjust and greedy.
(b) A religious dispute.
(c) Thorhall wanted to explore north, but Karlsefni thought they should sail south.
(d) None of the above.

5. When do Karlsefni and his men see the natives again?
(a) Not again for almost two years.
(b) When they find another native settlement.
(c) In the Spring.
(d) Again and again over the Winter.

6. What do Karlsefni and his men see when they are stopped at the lake?
(a) A traveling band of native families.
(b) Native warriors coming down the beach.
(c) Children from a native settlement.
(d) Nine skin boats approaching with natives waving sticks.

7. Why does Leif deny Thorgunna what she asks of him?
(a) She is too unwell.
(b) He does not want to antagonize Eirik.
(c) He doesn't think it will be possible.
(d) She had too many kinsmen who would disapprove of his abducting her and hunt him.

8. What does Eirik offer the traders in return for their generosity?
(a) Land near his home in Greenland.
(b) To stay the winter at Brattahlid.
(c) His sons as fellow voyagers.
(d) Gudrid's hand in marriage.

9. Who is Thorfinn Karlsfni?
(a) A Norwegian merchant.
(b) The son of the Icelandic king.
(c) An embassador from the king of Norway.
(d) A sea going merchant of distinction from Iceland.

10. When the natives return for a third time, what happens?
(a) The women cook together.
(b) They fight.
(c) They go hunting together.
(d) They trade many iron tools to the natives.

11. How is the marriage of Gudrid and Thorstein Eriksson received by their families?
(a) Both fathers disapproved of the match.
(b) With anger from Thorbjorn.
(c) With disappointment from Eirik.
(d) It was well received on all sides.

12. What do the natives most seem to want from the expedition?
(a) Cattle.
(b) Dried fish.
(c) Swords.
(d) Red cloth.

13. Where do Karsefni and the crew spend their third Winter?
(a) Straumford.
(b) Uniped-Land.
(c) Markland.
(d) Hope.

14. Who travels with Thorbjorn to Greenland?
(a) No one but Gudrid and his slaves.
(b) Three entire ships of people.
(c) About thrity friends.
(d) Einar.

15. What does Thorgunna send to Leif in Greenland?
(a) Three ships.
(b) A cross.
(c) His son.
(d) A fortune in cloth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Karsefni and his crew pick up on their way home?

2. What caused Bjarni Grimolfsson's ship to sink?

3. Why does Leif travel to the Hebrides?

4. Why does Karlsefni sail North when he decides to leave Vinland?

5. What does Gudrid do after Thorbjorn Vifilsson dies?

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