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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Thorkel try to buy?
(a) Laexdala.
(b) Laudar.
(c) Saelingsdale.
(d) Hjardarholt.

2. What does Bolli offer that Kjartan refuses?
(a) A sword.
(b) A handshake.
(c) An amulet.
(d) A gift.

3. When Kjartan returns to Iceland, what does he discover about Bolli?
(a) He has married Gudrun.
(b) He has built a throne for himself.
(c) He has become King of Iceland.
(d) He has taken over Kjartan's land.

4. With whom does Gudrun trade houses with?
(a) Helgi.
(b) Snorri.
(c) Bolli.
(d) Thorgerd.

5. What does Halldor give Bolli?
(a) A hug.
(b) A sword.
(c) A book.
(d) A bracelet.

6. What does the person who finds Gudrun smear on her clothes after killing her husband?
(a) Pig's guts.
(b) Blood.
(c) Vomit.
(d) Oil.

7. When Bolli wishes to kill the Olafsson brothers, what does Snorri argue is sufficient?
(a) Helgi's death.
(b) Thordis' sickness.
(c) Gudrun's marriage.
(d) Thorkel's absence.

8. From which Icelandic dynasty is Gudrun descended?
(a) Hoskuld.
(b) Unn the Deep-Minded.
(c) Bjorn the Easterner.
(d) Olaf the Peacock.

9. What does Gudrun join?
(a) A commune.
(b) A nunnery.
(c) A cult.
(d) A royal court.

10. Who betrays Kjartan?
(a) Olaf.
(b) Gudrun.
(c) Thorvald.
(d) Bolli.

11. Who dies in the Breidafjord?
(a) Bolli.
(b) Olaf.
(c) Gert.
(d) Thorkel.

12. Who ambushes Bolli?
(a) Thorbjornsson brothers.
(b) Thorbjornsson brothers.
(c) Hardbeinsson brothers.
(d) Olafsson brothers.

13. What will Gudrun give Thorgils in return for his actions?
(a) Her hand in marriage.
(b) Her children.
(c) Her magical powers.
(d) Her lands.

14. Whose family has an irresolvable conflict by Chapter 51?
(a) Lambi Thorbjornsson.
(b) Bolli Thorgedsson.
(c) Helgi Hardbeinsson.
(d) Olaf the Peacock.

15. Who does Helgi kill?
(a) The man called Thorleik.
(b) The man called Killer-Hrapp.
(c) The man called Bolli Bollason.
(d) The man called Leg-Biter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the magical present that King Olaf gave Kjartan that is later stolen?

2. What does the small man who approaches Thorgils call himself?

3. Who is Hrefna?

4. How is Lambi related to Melkorka?

5. What does the Norwegian princess give Kjartan?

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