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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Advent of the Slaves.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Spanish justify killing so many peaceful islanders?
(a) They claim that Indians had no souls.
(b) They insist that God told them to do it.
(c) They call the killings self-defense.
(d) They say it is necessary to kill people to take the land for Spain.

2. What happens when Montezuma asks his people not to fight back against the Spanish?
(a) He stirs the Aztecs to resist even more fiercely than before.
(b) He is hit on the head by a stone, which kills him.
(c) He convinces the Aztecs to lay down their arms peacefully.
(d) He frightens the Aztecs and they run away.

3. What happens when Bridget Bishop attempts to plead not guilty?
(a) She is tortured until she confesses.
(b) She is convicted of gross lying in the court.
(c) She is allowed to speak on her own behalf.
(d) She is denied the chance to hear the witnesses against her.

4. Who is the narrator for the first part of "Poor Richard"?
(a) An average American.
(b) An American Indian.
(c) William Carlos Williams.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

5. Why do the Puritans have such a strong impact on the national character, according to the narrator?
(a) Because they are so dashing and heroic that everyone tells stories about them.
(b) Because they persuade everyone else to emulate them.
(c) Because they are so driven to evangelize to others.
(d) Because they are among the first to arrive in a wild place.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Eric the Red go to start over?

2. How does Montezuma try to get Cortez to stay on the coast and not enter the interior?

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

4. What does the narrator say about the Puritan soul?

5. Who does the narrator say that the Puritans went on to persecute later?

(see the answer key)

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