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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the natives come the second time they visit Karsefni and his men?
(a) A great horde of them approach by boat from the South.
(b) More traveling families arrive as they follow the river.
(c) Native men arrive by dogsled.
(d) More kids arrive on foot from a nearby settlement.

2. 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.

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

4. How does Bjarni choose who gets to go in the life boat?
(a) By rank.
(b) By size.
(c) By age.
(d) By lottery.

5. What first attracts Einar to Gudrid?
(a) Her intelligence.
(b) Her humor.
(c) Her height.
(d) Her beauty.

6. What is Karlsefni's mother's first impression of Gudrid?
(a) That Gudrid is too spoiled.
(b) That she is an angel.
(c) That Karlsefni had married beneath him.
(d) The Gudrid's beauty would make Karlsefni miserable.

7. Where do Karlsefni and his men spend the next winter?
(a) On the ship.
(b) In the houses Leif built.
(c) In houses they build near the lake.
(d) At an abandoned native settlement.

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

9. What does Leif find in Vinland?
(a) Towns and ports.
(b) Gold and lumber.
(c) Wild wheat, vines, and maples.
(d) Gold, sheep, and wild game.

10. What do the traders offer Eirik the Red when they arrive at Brattahlid?
(a) That he could have anything he wanted from their cargos.
(b) To introduce him to the king of Norway.
(c) A share in their business.
(d) Their cargo for his home.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the natives have an use that impresses Karlsefni and his men?

2. Where does Thorhall end up?

3. What does Thorbjorg tell Gudrid?

4. Where does Thorstein's ship next put in to land after it leaves Eiriksfjord?

5. How does Thorbjorn announce his departure to Greenland?

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