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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the natives have an use that impresses Karlsefni and his men?
(a) A catapult like weapon.
(b) Dog sleds.
(c) Great skill in hunting.
(d) Arrowheads.

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

3. Where does Thorstein's ship next put in to land after it leaves Eiriksfjord?
(a) Vinland.
(b) Eiriksfjord.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Norway.

4. What is morale like the last Winter in Vinland?
(a) Fights keep breaking out.
(b) Sad to be leaving this rich land.
(c) Everyone is depressed at losing Thorvald.
(d) Worried about the other ship and Thorhall.

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

6. How does Thorbjorn announce his departure to Greenland?
(a) He doesn't. He just leaves.
(b) By having his good friends spread the word.
(c) At a feast he throws for all his friends.
(d) At a town meeting.

7. What does Gudrid do after Thorbjorn Vifilsson dies?
(a) Travel to Norway.
(b) Stay a Brattahlid with Eirik the Red.
(c) Go on a pilgrimage.
(d) Return to Iceland.

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

9. What does Gudrid do for Thorbjorg?
(a) Encourage people to attend.
(b) Dance.
(c) Help set up her tools.
(d) Sing.

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

11. What do Karlsefni and his natives do with the natives the second time they get visited?
(a) The natives show them how to plant corn.
(b) Trade.
(c) Karlsefni and his men show them their weapons.
(d) Karlsefni and his men give them gifts.

12. Which of the following best characterizes Gudrid's father?
(a) The owner of a large farm.
(b) A chieftan.
(c) All of the above.
(d) A former slave.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What takes Thorstein Eriksson and Gudrid to Lysufjord?

2. 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?

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

4. What does the expedition see as they approach Vinland?

5. What does the king of Norway ask Leif to do upon his return to Greenland?

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