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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. What dispute arises between Thorhall and Karlsefni?

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

3. What does Karlsefni offer Eirik to cheer him up?

4. What was the general division of people between the two ships that travel with Karlsefni to Vinland?

5. How does Einar go about seeking the hand of Gudrid?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the first impressions that Karlsefni and Eirik the Red make on each other? How do they do this?

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

4. 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?

5. Explain what happens during Thorstein and Eirik's trip to Vinland, and what they do for the crew at the end of it.

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

7. What interaction do Gudrid and Thorbjorg have together?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What are the Icelandic Sagas?

Part 1. What are the Icelandic Sagas? When were they written and by whom?

Part 2. Why are the Icelandic Sagas important historically? What do we know from them?

Part 3. Summarize and analyze the content of the Vinland sagas.

Essay Topic 3

The Vinland Sagas are part of the history of Iceland. Write an essay about Iceland.

Part 1. Describe Iceland physically - where is it and what is the nature like there?

Part 2. What role does Iceland play in the Vinland Sagas? Why are the Vinland Sagas important to Iceland?

Part 3. Cover the history of Iceland. Who discovered it? When? What has happened to Iceland since then?

Part 4. What is modern Iceland like? Who lives there? What kind of government do they have? What has happened to them recently?

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