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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 happens between Thorgest and Eirik when Eirik returns to Iceland?
2. What happens to the brothers and their men?
3. What does Freydis ask of one of the brothers?
4. What is the result of the trouble the slaves started?
5. Where do Thorstein and his men first land on their trip?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Bjarni away when his father emigrates to Greenland?
2. Describe the land that Thorvald and his men reported seeing all up and down the coast.
3. What kind of person is Freydis? Give examples.
4. Explain the entire affair of Eirik and the bench-boards.
5. What circumstances caused Eirik the Red to leave Iceland?
6. What does the prophecy told to Gudrid tell her about her future?
7. Describe the woman that Gudrid sees and the discourse between them.
8. Describe what happens as Leif and his crew try to approach the shore of the mainland.
9. What happens to Thorstein and his crew when they set sail for Vinland? Where do they end up spending the winter?
10. How does Leif become aware of Freydis' behavior on Vinland and what does he do about it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Gudrid's father, Thorbjorn Vifilsson, is the son of a slave and is a respected well admired man, but is offended with another son of a slave proposes marriage to his daughter. Research and write an essay about the practice of slavery in Viking culture.
Part 1. How was the concept of slavery for the Vikings fundamentally different than the concept for slavery was for the United States? Which other cultures shared this practice?
Part 2. Where did the Vikings get their slaves?
Part 3. What were the likely and possible futures for a slave once taken by the Vikings?
Part 4. What were the social stigmas attached to slavery or having previously been a slave?
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