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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Destruction of Tenochtitlan.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which statement shows that Gregory believes that most people revere history without understanding it?
(a) "There must be imagination at work to discern the fabulae of history."
(b) "The serious historian of the ancient world is careful never to forget his Homer."
(c) "History, like poetry, is an ancient trap laid for the credulous and narrow-minded."
(d) "In the reading and interpretation of history everything falls dead unless that reality is perceived."

3. What does Columbus want to do instead of traveling to the New World again?
(a) He wants to visit his family members in Portugal.
(b) He wants to circumnavigate the globe.
(c) He wants to go on a pilgrimmage to holy places.
(d) He wants to go on vacation to someplace warm and tropical.

4. What happens to Columbus when he finally makes it back to Spain?
(a) He is accused of making a deal with the King of Portugal.
(b) The King and Queen refuse to finance any future trips to the New World.
(c) He loses his religious faith and decides to leave the Church.
(d) Storms make it impossible to set sail again for several months.

5. Why does Cortez finally burn the city?
(a) To give glory to the Christian God by destroying temples full of idols.
(b) To kill the inhabitants of the city who were trapped inside.
(c) To demoralize the Aztecs so that they would stop resisting him so fiercely.
(d) To destroy a place which would have given refuge to the forces that were opposing him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the following sentence mean? "Rather the ice than their way: to take what is mine by single strength, theirs by the crookedness of their law."

2. 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..."

3. What does Montezuma tell Cortez?

4. Who does Gregory say is depicted more boldly by Williams than by any other writer?

5. What does Columbus think of the New World when he reaches it?

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