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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Eirik spend exploring Greenland?

2. What is the general consensus about Freydis after her trip to Vinland?

3. What arrangement does Freydis have with the brothers Helgi and Finnbogi?

4. What do the settlers end up trading to the natives?

5. What does Thorvald use to mark the spot he named Kjalarness?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what happens as Leif and his crew try to approach the shore of the mainland.

2. What strategy do Leif and his men employ to explore the area around them on this new shore?

3. What kind of person is Freydis? Give examples.

4. Where do Karlsefni and Gudrid travel? What becomes of them?

5. Why was Bjarni determined to reach Greenland? What did he do there when he did?

6. Describe the interactions the settlers have with the natives.

7. Who is Thorir and what happens to him?

8. Describe how Eirik the Red felt about the possibility of joining Leif's exploration crew and why he did not.

9. What response does Bjarni receive when he shares his sighting of the new land?

10. What circumstances caused Eirik the Red to leave Iceland?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the Vikings compare as shipbuilders, seamen and explorers to their contemporaries?

Part 1. As explorers and sea voyagers, how did the vikings compare to others of their time?

Part 2. What kind of ships did the Vikings use? What were the advantages and disadvantages of these ships? How were they made?

Part 3. What influence did the Viking ships have on other nautical customs of the time? What legacy have they left behind?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about many popular misconceptions about Vikings.

Part 1. What is the popular image of a Viking?

Part 2. What parts of the popular image of a Viking are wrong?

Part 3. Provide explanations or evidence that suggests that these popular misconceptions are not historical.

Part 4. What might historical Vikings have been like instead?

Essay Topic 3

Eirik the Red is sentenced to outlawry by the Thorsness Assembly. Write an essay about the concept of outlawry.

Part 1. What does the legal sentence of outlawry mean?

Part 2. What places practiced the sentence of outlawry? When did they stop?

Part 3. What are the good and bad consequences of the practice of outlawry? Why do you think it is no longer practiced?

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