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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 Thorgunna ask of Leif?
(a) To spread Christianity.
(b) To share the fortune he makes.
(c) To return with him to Greenland.
(d) To stay in the Hebrides with her.

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

3. What does Thorbjorg do for Gudrid?
(a) Promises the wealthiest man in the land.
(b) Makes her a beautiful dress.
(c) Blesses her.
(d) Tells her future.

4. What do Karlsefni and his men find when they stop for a fortnight when they sail south?
(a) Wild wheat and grapes.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Streams teeming with fish.
(d) A lake they can sail to up a river.

5. Where does Thorhall announce he wants to go as he hoists the sail to part company with Karlsefni?
(a) To claim the best land as his own.
(b) Into the wilderness and away from the Christians.
(c) Back to their countrymen at home.
(d) Ireland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gudrid do for Thorbjorg?

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

3. What takes Thorstein Eriksson and Gudrid to Lysufjord?

4. What is Thorbjorn's reaction when he hears of the potential match for Gudrid?

5. What does Sigrid see in her vision?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What future does Thorbjorg predict for Gudrid?

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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