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

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

3. What does the glittering thing turn out to be?
(a) A uniped.
(b) A waterfall.
(c) A streak of gold.
(d) Metal armor.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the uniped do when it sees Karlsefni and the men?

2. Where do Karsefni and the crew spend their third Winter?

3. Who does Karsefni and his crew pick up on their way home?

4. What does Thorbjorg tell Gudrid?

5. Who was Thorhall?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain why the small boat on Bjarni's ship would not sink while the large one was about to.

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

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

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

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

7. How does a fight break out between Karlsefni's men and the natives? Describe the sequence of events leading up to Karlsefni and his men fleeing.

8. What are the first impressions that Karlsefni and Eirik the Red make on each other? How do they do this?

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

10. Describe who Thorbjorg is and what her behavior is like when she arrives at Herjolfsness.

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