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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Discovery of Kentucky.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Williams trying to tell the reader about Columbus when he quotes details about how harrowing the storms at sea during Columbus' voyages were?
(a) Columbus' courage.
(b) Columbus' good judgment.
(c) Columbus' foolhardiness.
(d) Columbus' literary skill.

2. Who is Thomas Morton?
(a) A historian.
(b) A writer.
(c) A colonist.
(d) A soldier.

3. What makes Daniel Boone different from other settlers, according to the narrator?
(a) He started new communities wherever he went.
(b) He is not afraid to go west into the wilderness.
(c) He is at war with the Indians he met.
(d) He does not consider himself an American citizen.

4. Who does the narrator say that the Puritans went on to persecute later?
(a) The Quakers.
(b) The atheists.
(c) The Indians.
(d) The Spanish.

5. What area does Boone discover, along with his brother, just before the American Revolution?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Nebraska.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Columbus when he finally makes it back to Spain?

2. What characteristic does Boone have to have in order to live the kind of life that he lived?

3. What does the narrator say that the Puritans should be praised for?

4. Williams, referring to the King's and Queen's promises to Columbus, remarks, "What power had such ridiculous little promises to stay a man against that terrific downpour on the brink of which they were all floating?". What promises is Williams referring to?

5. What does the narrator admire about the Pilgrims?

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