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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Thorvald and his men do with the natives they encounter?
(a) Trade.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Fight.
(d) Attempt to communicate.

2. How does Bjarni spend the rest of his days?
(a) Sick in bed with the plague.
(b) Farming with his father in Greenland.
(c) As a pauper.
(d) Sailing the seas looking for that land.

3. What is the land like that Bjarni sees first?
(a) Wooded with low hills.
(b) Desolate and bare.
(c) Mountainous and icy.
(d) Heavily populated.

4. What do the settlers end up trading to the natives?
(a) Woven blankets.
(b) Axes.
(c) Milk.
(d) Metal knives.

5. Which of the following best characterizes the natural resources and weather on the land that Leif and his men explore?
(a) Abundant and mild.
(b) Few and cold.
(c) Sparse and changeable.
(d) Sufficient and tolerable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tyrkir find?

2. How long does Eirik spend exploring Greenland?

3. Who is Leif?

4. What causes a fight between Eirik and Thorgest?

5. How do Thorstein and his men spend the summer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the circumstances of Bjarni's discovery of new lands to the west.

2. What response does Bjarni receive when he shares his sighting of the new land?

3. Describe how Eirik the Red felt about the possibility of joining Leif's exploration crew and why he did not.

4. How long does Thorvald spend in Vinland, and what are his primary activities while he is there? Give details.

5. Describe the events surrounding Thorstein's death.

6. What does Eirik do when he reaches Greenland? How long?

7. Why was Bjarni determined to reach Greenland? What did he do there when he did?

8. Why is Bjarni away when his father emigrates to Greenland?

9. Who is Thorir and what happens to him?

10. Describe the woman that Gudrid sees and the discourse between them.

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