View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Freydis get left behind?
(a) She refuses to leave the safety of the ship.
(b) She claims the natives are friendly.
(c) She is pregnant and can't keep up when they flee.
(d) She wants to stay and fight the natives.

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

3. What makes Karlsefni decide to leave Vinland?
(a) They have enough supplies to make them rich.
(b) Gudrid misses the people at Brattahlid.
(c) He realizes a settlement will never have peace from the natives.
(d) The group has lost too many men.

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

5. What drives the natives away from their second visit?
(a) A running and bellowing bull.
(b) An incoming storm.
(c) None of the above.
(d) One of Karlsefni's men gets angry in a trade dispute.

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

7. What trouble is there with with Sigrid's corpse?
(a) It smelled terrible in the small house.
(b) It keeps trying to get into bed with Thorstein Eriksson.
(c) It was too large.
(d) It kept telling false prophecies.

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

9. What is the nature of the Christmas feast Eirik the Red served Karlsefni and company?
(a) Meager.
(b) Identical to what he served for his son's wedding.
(c) Stately and respectful.
(d) Lavish and beyond what most people had seen before.

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

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

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

13. Which of the following best describes the clothes of the prophetess Thorbjorg?
(a) Practical and common.
(b) Elaborate and ornate.
(c) Tattered and loose fitting.
(d) Sparse and simple.

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

15. What do Karlsefni and his men first see on the opposite side of a clearing?
(a) A fog.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Something glittering.
(d) An unidentifiable shape.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who speaks to Bjarni when Bjarni gets on the life boat?

2. Who gives Gudrid the prophecy about her future?

3. What is found in abundance on the island near Straumfjord?

4. Where does Thorhall end up?

5. Where do Karsefni and the crew spend their third Winter?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 570 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample