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

2. How many people could fit in the small boat they had?
(a) All but ten.
(b) Only about ten.
(c) All of them, but then no food or water.
(d) Half the people on board.

3. Who does Karsefni and his crew pick up on their way home?
(a) Wrecked sailors.
(b) The body of Thorvald.
(c) Some men that abandoned Thorhall when he left to sail home.
(d) Two native boys.

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

5. Where does Thorhall end up?
(a) He stayed at the native settlement they had seen from a distance.
(b) Enslaved in Ireland.
(c) He fled to the interior and was never seen again.
(d) Perished at sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thorbjorg tell Gudrid?

2. How old was Karlsefni's son when they left Vinland?

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

4. What dispute arises between Thorhall and Karlsefni?

5. What do Karlsefni and his natives do with the natives the second time they get visited?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When food runs scarce, Thorhall disappears for three days. How and where do Karlsefni and Bjarni find him? What does he say he was doing?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What prophecy does Gudrid hear about her future? Who tells her this future?

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

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

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