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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Thorbjorg invited to the feast at Herjolfsness.
(a) To arrange matches.
(b) To determine when the famine would end.
(c) Because she is very popular.
(d) To bless the food.

2. Which of the following best describes the clothes of the prophetess Thorbjorg?
(a) Sparse and simple.
(b) Elaborate and ornate.
(c) Practical and common.
(d) Tattered and loose fitting.

3. What first attracts Einar to Gudrid?
(a) Her humor.
(b) Her height.
(c) Her beauty.
(d) Her intelligence.

4. Why is Thorbjorn not in the house during Thorbjorg's visit?
(a) He is arranging Gudrid's marriage.
(b) He is afraid of Thorbjorg.
(c) He is hunting.
(d) He would not stay to see such pagan practices.

5. What takes Thorstein Eriksson and Gudrid to Lysufjord?
(a) To escape the wrath of their fathers.
(b) They were banished from the other settlement.
(c) They are trying to reach Vinland.
(d) They jointly own a farm there with another Thorstein.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sigrid see in her vision?

2. What does the expedition see as they approach Vinland?

3. What do Haki and Hekja come back with?

4. Which of the following best characterizes Gudrid's father?

5. Why does Karlsefni sail North when he decides to leave Vinland?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does a fight break out between Karlsefni's men and the natives? Describe the sequence of events leading up to Karlsefni and his men fleeing.

2. 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?

3. How does Freydis drive away the natives giving chase?

4. How do the two native boys describe the land that is across from their own land? Where might this be?

5. What interaction do Gudrid and Thorbjorg have together?

6. Describe Thorbjorn's trip to Greenland. Include who he is with and what happens.

7. Explain the encounter with the uniped.

8. What happens when a native finds an axe near one of the fallen Vikings?

9. How do Haki and Hekja come to be on the expedition to Vinland? Where are they from?

10. What happens to those that stay in Bjarni's ship and those that leave in the small boat?

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