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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the expedition see as they approach Vinland?
(a) A pod of strange whales.
(b) Several islands of varying landscapes.
(c) Settlements far to the north.
(d) A ghost ship.

2. What does Thorkel prepare for Thorbjorg before her arrival?
(a) A high seat with a cushion.
(b) A service.
(c) An informal social greeting time.
(d) A feast.

3. Who speaks to Bjarni when Bjarni gets on the life boat?
(a) A scared little girl.
(b) The mother of three small children.
(c) A young Icelander who had traveled with Bjarni.
(d) A nobleman.

4. What is found in abundance on the island near Straumfjord?
(a) Gold.
(b) Salt.
(c) Eggs.
(d) Grapes.

5. What washes up on the shore over the winter when they are hungry?
(a) An abandoned ship.
(b) A whale.
(c) Six sea lions.
(d) None of the above.

6. How old was Karlsefni's son when they left Vinland?
(a) Newborn.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Seven.

7. What does this speaker ask of Bjarni?
(a) To show mercy to the children.
(b) To notify his/her family.
(c) To assume his/her responsibilities.
(d) To trade places.

8. Why did Thorhall go on the expedition to Vinland?
(a) He had considerable experience in wild regions.
(b) To protect Eirik's son Thorvald.
(c) Eirik no longer wanted him in Greenland.
(d) Karlsefni invited him along for his hunting skills.

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

10. Who does Karsefni and his crew pick up on their way home?
(a) Some men that abandoned Thorhall when he left to sail home.
(b) Two native boys.
(c) The body of Thorvald.
(d) Wrecked sailors.

11. Why does Karlsefni sail North when he decides to leave Vinland?
(a) To ensure food as long as possible.
(b) Because he wants to complete a map of the coast.
(c) To depart from their point of arrival.
(d) To look for Thorhall.

12. What happens when Karlsefni and his men meet the natives?
(a) Gudrid started converting them to Christianity.
(b) They stared at each other and then the natives left.
(c) They fought, and several of Karlsefni's men are killed.
(d) Karlsefni took them prisoner.

13. What takes Thorstein Eriksson and Gudrid to Lysufjord?
(a) To escape the wrath of their fathers.
(b) They jointly own a farm there with another Thorstein.
(c) They are trying to reach Vinland.
(d) They were banished from the other settlement.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the general division of people between the two ships that travel with Karlsefni to Vinland?

2. What does Karlsefni offer Eirik to cheer him up?

3. Who initializes the marriage between Karlsefni and Gudrid?

4. What first attracts Einar to Gudrid?

5. What do the natives most seem to want from the expedition?

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