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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. In Eirik's saga, how does Leif encounter Vinland?
(a) Thorgunna tells him where it is.
(b) He follows an ancient trade route.
(c) He is chased by pirates, and finds it while fleeing from them.
(d) He is blown off course when he returns from Norway.

3. 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.

4. How does Einar go about seeking the hand of Gudrid?
(a) He lavishes her with gifts.
(b) He leaves determined to seek his fortune.
(c) He expresses his devotion to her.
(d) He sends his friend Orm to plead his case to Thorbjorn.

5. What does the uniped do when it sees Karlsefni and the men?
(a) Comes bounding towards them.
(b) Runs away.
(c) Dives into the water.
(d) Dresses itself in armor.

6. Who were Haki and Hekja?
(a) Two sailors who were also good runners.
(b) Two Scots given to Leif by the king of Norway.
(c) Icelandic friends of Karlsefni's.
(d) Boys who had been raised at Brattahlid.

7. Why does Eirik get depressed as Christmas draws near when he has guests staying at Brattahlid?
(a) Marital problems.
(b) He only has supplies to provide a meager Christmas for his guests.
(c) He is reminded of his banishment from Iceland.
(d) He misses his son Thorstein.

8. Why does Gudrid not want to help Thorbjorg?
(a) Thorbjorg scares her.
(b) Because she is a Christian.
(c) She considers the work beneath her.
(d) She is shy.

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

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

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. What does Thorbjorg do for Gudrid?
(a) Promises the wealthiest man in the land.
(b) Tells her future.
(c) Makes her a beautiful dress.
(d) Blesses her.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Karlsefni's mother's first impression of Gudrid?

2. What caused Bjarni Grimolfsson's ship to sink?

3. Why does Leif deny Thorgunna what she asks of him?

4. What does the glittering thing turn out to be?

5. Who is Einar?

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