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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sir Walter Raleigh.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Williams think was the motive of the person who told Ponce de Leon there was a fountain of youth?
(a) Revenge.
(b) A desire to help.
(c) Love.
(d) Storytelling.

2. What people do Karlsefni and Snorri find in the New World?
(a) The Abenaki.
(b) The Inuit.
(c) The Iroquois.
(d) The Skrellings.

3. What kind of woman is Freydis?
(a) Foolish.
(b) Submissive.
(c) Dedicated.
(d) Fierce.

4. Which of the following quotations reveals Williams' opinion of Cortez?
(a) "Spain cannot be blamed for the crassness of the discoverers."
(b) "Courageous almost beyond precedent, tactful, resourceful in misfortune..."
(c) "...Nothing at the present moment seemed to disturb his aristocratic reserve."
(d) "With the force bred of a determination to face at any cost a situation fast going beyond his control..."

5. What does Columbus do when he thinks the ship might capsize?
(a) He has a meeting of his crew and asks everyone to try his best.
(b) He puts a note in a cask and throws it into the sea.
(c) He prays that the ship will make it back to Spain.
(d) He curses the day he ever set out to find the New World.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a term used by the narrator to describe Queen Elizabeth?

2. What does Montezuma do when Cortez enters the capital?

3. What is Columbus' point when he makes the following statement: "I was twenty-eight years old when I came into your Highnesses' service, and now I have not a hair upon me that is not gray; my body is infirm..."

4. How do many of the Indians react when the Spanish begin to enslave them?

5. What does Queen Elizabeth force Raleigh to do when she calls him back from the fleet's attack on Spain?

(see the answer key)

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