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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Haki and Hekja come back with?
(a) A skin of fresh water.
(b) Grapes and wild wheat.
(c) Arrowheads and pottery.
(d) Reports of a great bay.

2. What do Karsefni and his crew learn about the natives?
(a) They knew of a land of Europeans.
(b) All of the above.
(c) They lived in caves or holes in the ground.
(d) They had two kings, Avaldamon and Valdidida.

3. Why does Thorbjorn decide to travel to Greenland with Eirik the Red?
(a) The prospect of adventure.
(b) To hide Gudrid from Einar.
(c) Financial difficulties.
(d) Political ambition.

4. Why does Karlsefni decide to go to Vinland?
(a) To escape Eirik's wrath about his marriage to Gudrid.
(b) Because of all the discussions about Vinland at Brattahlid.
(c) He feels it is his obligation to the king of Norway.
(d) Gudrid wants to see Vinland.

5. What is the woman Thorbjorg by trade?
(a) Seamstress.
(b) Matchmaker.
(c) Prophetess.
(d) Priestess.

6. What does the glittering thing turn out to be?
(a) Metal armor.
(b) A streak of gold.
(c) A waterfall.
(d) A uniped.

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

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

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

10. Who initializes the marriage between Karlsefni and Gudrid?
(a) Karlsefni.
(b) Gudrid.
(c) Eirik the Red.
(d) None of the above.

11. How were the men split between Karlsefni and Thorhall?
(a) Karlsefni split the men so half would go with each ship.
(b) Only nine men wanted to go with Thorhall, the rest with Karlsefni.
(c) None of the men wanted to go with Thorhall.
(d) The Christians wanted to go with Karlsefni, the others withThorhall.

12. What happens on the trip to Greenland?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Bad weather.
(c) Disease.
(d) The death of Orm and his wife.

13. Who gives Gudrid the prophecy about her future?
(a) The overseer.
(b) The corpse of Sigrid.
(c) Her dead husband.
(d) A prophetess in a dream.

14. How many ships and men travel with Karlsefni to Greenland?
(a) Twenty heavily laden ships.
(b) Two ships with about forty men on each.
(c) One ship loaded with almost one hundred men.
(d) One ship with a bare skeleton crew.

15. How does Thorvald know they have found rich country just before he dies?
(a) He sees the glittering streak of gold in the rocks.
(b) There is plenty of fat around his entrails.
(c) Unipeds only defend rich land.
(d) He notices the black color of the earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kills many people while Thorstein and Gudrid are in Lysufjord?

2. Who is Einar?

3. What does Leif find on his way home from Vinland?

4. What is Thorbjorn's reaction when he hears of the potential match for Gudrid?

5. What do Karlsefni and his men see from their ship that make them think they have traveled as far from Straumfjord this way as they had the other way?

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