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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Eirik's Saga, Chapters 1 - 2, Gudrid's Ancestry, Eirik Explores Greenland.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Thorstein and his men spend the summer?
(a) Preparing to leave Greenland.
(b) Searching the coast for Thorvald.
(c) Lost at sea.
(d) Cutting wood and grapes.

2. What do Eirik's slaves do that caused problems?
(a) Steal sheep.
(b) Proposition the neighbor's daughter.
(c) Start a landslide.
(d) Threaten passerbys.

3. What scares the natives the first time they appear?
(a) The bellowing of the bull.
(b) The men shout and chase them.
(c) The sight of a whale being butchered.
(d) The weapons displayed by the men.

4. Why do the men wish to stop at this land?
(a) They are afraid of getting further lost.
(b) The land is rich and beautiful.
(c) They think it is Greenland.
(d) For wood and water.

5. How many men and ships return to Vinland with Thorvald?
(a) Thirty men in one ship.
(b) Thirty men in three ships.
(c) Nine men in one ship.
(d) Sixty men in eight ships.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the men bury Thorvald?

2. What do Thorvald and Eirik do because "of some killings" in Jaederen?

3. What causes the Bjarni to lose his bearings at sea?

4. What do Leif and his crew decide to do regarding their discovery of this land?

5. What do Thorvald and his men do with the natives they encounter?

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