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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 does Thorbjorn announce his departure to Greenland?
(a) He doesn't. He just leaves.
(b) At a feast he throws for all his friends.
(c) By having his good friends spread the word.
(d) At a town meeting.

2. What do the natives have an use that impresses Karlsefni and his men?
(a) A catapult like weapon.
(b) Great skill in hunting.
(c) Dog sleds.
(d) Arrowheads.

3. Who is Einar?
(a) Gudrid's foster father.
(b) A very wealthy but mean man.
(c) A successful sea going trader.
(d) The local cheiftan.

4. Who speaks to Bjarni when Bjarni gets on the life boat?
(a) The mother of three small children.
(b) A scared little girl.
(c) A young Icelander who had traveled with Bjarni.
(d) A nobleman.

5. How many ships and men travel with Karlsefni to Greenland?
(a) One ship with a bare skeleton crew.
(b) Twenty heavily laden ships.
(c) Two ships with about forty men on each.
(d) One ship loaded with almost one hundred men.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Thorkel prepare for Thorbjorg before her arrival?

3. What does Thorbjorg tell Gudrid?

4. What do Karlsefni and his men see from their ship that make them think they have traveled as far from Straumfjord this way as they had the other way?

5. What happens on the trip to Greenland?

Short Essay Questions

1. What interaction do Gudrid and Thorbjorg have together?

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

4. What kind of place to Karlsefni and his men settle in for their stay in Vinland?

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

6. 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.

7. What does Eirik the Red do upon departing for Vinland that he suspects causes him to fall off his horse? What does he do to resolve it?

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

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

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

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