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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this speaker ask of Bjarni?

2. What is the nature of the Christmas feast Eirik the Red served Karlsefni and company?

3. How were the men split between Karlsefni and Thorhall?

4. What does Eirik offer the traders in return for their generosity?

5. What does Karlsefni offer Eirik to cheer him up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the relationship between Thorbjorn and Orm? How does it change with events?

2. Explain what happens during Thorstein and Eirik's trip to Vinland, and what they do for the crew at the end of it.

3. What happens when a native finds an axe near one of the fallen Vikings?

4. What does the corpse of Thorstein Eriksson say about the dead? What do the people do after hearing it?

5. What happens with the whale? Why do people refuse to eat it?

6. How does Karlsefni's mother feel about Gudrid when she meets her and how does that change over time?

7. Describe the first two encounters that Karlsefni and his men have with the natives.

8. How and why does Einar pursue Gudrid in marriage?

9. How do Leif's parents, Eirik the Red and Thjodhild, take to Christianity?

10. How do the two native boys describe the land that is across from their own land? Where might this be?

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