In the American Grain Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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In the American Grain Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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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 Montezuma tell Cortez?
(a) That the Spanish cannot hope to defeat such a large and well-supplied enemy.
(b) That Cortez is not a god, but flesh and blood like other men.
(c) That the Aztecs will welcome the Spanish as Allies and help them to defeat the countryside.
(d) That Montezuma is not a god, but flesh and blood like other men.

2. What do bows and arrows, corn meal, and belief in a second life all have in common, according to the narrator of "Sir Walter Raleigh"?
(a) They are necessary to colonization.
(b) They are found in all villages.
(c) They are things all people can do without.
(d) They are invented by all peoples.

3. What happens when Thorgest tries to steal from Eric the Red?
(a) Eric the Red tries to remove his property, but Eric the Red's two sons are killed in the melee.
(b) Eric the Red decides to steal from Thorgest in return, on his way into exile.
(c) Eric the Red has to give in and let Thorgest take his property.
(d) Eric the Red removes his property, and in the ensuing chase, two of Thorgest's sons are killed.

4. How does Freydis handle her quarrel with the two brothers, Helgi and Finnbogi?
(a) She steals property from the brothers and refuses to give it back, claiming that it will compensate her for the quarrel.
(b) She talks to her neighbors about the brothers, turning the community against them until they are forced into exile.
(c) She tricks her husband into killing them, and kills the women of their household herself.
(d) She goes to court against the brothers and sues them, winning her case and forcing them to pay a fine.

5. Where does Eric the Red go to start over?
(a) America.
(b) Norway.
(c) Greenland.
(d) Iceland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the Greenlanders fight with the people they meet in the New World?

2. Why does Cortez finally burn the city?

3. How does Montezuma treat hungry people in the capital?

4. How does Ponce de Leon die?

5. What does Cortez think when he enters the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan?

(see the answer key)

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