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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 on his way home from Vinland?
(a) A dead whale floating at sea.
(b) A new bay on Greenland.
(c) An abandoned ship at sea.
(d) Shipwrecked seamen.

2. What takes Thorstein Eriksson and Gudrid to Lysufjord?
(a) They are trying to reach Vinland.
(b) They were banished from the other settlement.
(c) To escape the wrath of their fathers.
(d) They jointly own a farm there with another Thorstein.

3. What does this speaker ask of Bjarni?
(a) To trade places.
(b) To assume his/her responsibilities.
(c) To notify his/her family.
(d) To show mercy to the children.

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

5. What did Haki and Hekja leave to do?
(a) Explore the country to the south.
(b) Start making a map of the area.
(c) Report on the settlements sighted to the north.
(d) Find fresh water.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do Karlsefni and his men see the natives again?

2. Who travels with Thorbjorn to Greenland?

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

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

5. What first attracts Einar to Gudrid?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

7. Explain Sigrid's vision, including where she was when she had it and the three individuals in her vision she identifies.

8. Explain the encounter with the uniped.

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

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

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