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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 happens on the trip to Greenland?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Disease.
(c) Bad weather.
(d) The death of Orm and his wife.

2. When the natives return for a third time, what happens?
(a) They go hunting together.
(b) They fight.
(c) The women cook together.
(d) They trade many iron tools to the natives.

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

4. Where do Karsefni and the crew spend their third Winter?
(a) Hope.
(b) Markland.
(c) Uniped-Land.
(d) Straumford.

5. What is morale like the last Winter in Vinland?
(a) Sad to be leaving this rich land.
(b) Worried about the other ship and Thorhall.
(c) Fights keep breaking out.
(d) Everyone is depressed at losing Thorvald.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Thorbjorn decide to travel to Greenland with Eirik the Red?

2. What does Thorgunna send to Leif in Greenland?

3. What trouble is there with with Sigrid's corpse?

4. Who initializes the marriage between Karlsefni and Gudrid?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Freydis drive away the natives giving chase?

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

5. Describe Thorbjorn's trip to Greenland. Include who he is with and what happens.

6. Explain the affair of the Christmas feast, and what secondary function the Christmas feast ended up serving.

7. Describe Thorhall and explain why he is on the expedition to Vinland.

8. Explain the interchange between Bjarni and the young Icelander. What are the circumstances and what is the result?

9. How do Haki and Hekja come to be on the expedition to Vinland? Where are they from?

10. Summarize the part Thorhall plays in the expedition to Vinland, including how it ends for both him and Karlsefni.

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