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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 does Thorkel prepare for Thorbjorg before her arrival?

2. What does the uniped do to Thorvald?

3. What does Thorgunna send to Leif in Greenland?

4. Why did Thorhall go on the expedition to Vinland?

5. What kills many people while Thorstein and Gudrid are in Lysufjord?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain the encounter with the uniped.

3. What future does Thorbjorg predict for Gudrid?

4. Describe the first two encounters that Karlsefni and his men have with the natives.

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. Explain the interchange between Bjarni and the young Icelander. What are the circumstances and what is the result?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about women in Viking culture.

Part 1. How did the rights of viking women compare with the rights of women in other areas of Europe?

Part 2. What traditions surrounded the processes of marriage and divorce?

Part 3. What were the roles and responsibilities of women in a marriage and society?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Gudrid (Gudridur Thorbjarnardottir) is possibly one of the best documented and traveled women of her era. Do further outside research and write an essay about Gudrid.

Part 1. Who was Gudrid? Who were her family?

Part 2. What kind of person was Gudrid? How did this affect her life?

Part 3. Where did Gudrid travel during her life? How and why did she travel so extensively?

Part 4. What other major events happened during Gudrid's life and how did she handle them?

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