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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kills many people while Thorstein and Gudrid are in Lysufjord?
(a) Cold.
(b) A terrible storm.
(c) Starvation.
(d) A disease.

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

3. Who was Thorhall?
(a) A swarthy huntsman.
(b) All of the above.
(c) A cantankerous and unpopular trouble-maker.
(d) A close friend of Eirik's.

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

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

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

7. What is Thorbjorn's reaction when he hears of the potential match for Gudrid?
(a) He threatens to kill Einar.
(b) He laughs heartily.
(c) He ponders carefully but decides he can do better.
(d) He is offended.

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

9. 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?
(a) The same range of mountains they saw from Hope.
(b) The stars are the same.
(c) They see smoke from the settlement.
(d) None of the above.

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

11. Why does Leif travel to the Hebrides?
(a) In search of new lands.
(b) He was blown off course on his way to Norway.
(c) He had to leave because of some killings.
(d) On a mission from King Olaf Tryggvason.

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

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

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

15. What does Sigrid see in her vision?
(a) The corpses of herself and Thorstein Eriksson.
(b) A line of corpses outside the house.
(c) Gardi trying to flog others with a whip.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best describes the clothes of the prophetess Thorbjorg?

2. What drives the natives away from their second visit?

3. What takes Thorstein Eriksson and Gudrid to Lysufjord?

4. What does Thorgunna ask of Leif?

5. What happens with the uniped after Thorvald dies?

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