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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Voyage of the Mayflower.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the narrator say that Raleigh is now in Hell?
(a) He sent his son on a mission that got him killed.
(b) He broke Queen Elizabeth's heart.
(c) He was an atheist.
(d) He had no regard for the safety of his colonists.

3. Which chapter does Gregory say is in some ways the product of the era in which it was written?
(a) The chapter on John Paul Jones.
(b) The chapter on Daniel Boone.
(c) The chapter on Cotton Mather.
(d) The chapter on Christopher Columbus.

4. What does Eric the Red say that his life is like now that he has been exiled?
(a) He is more well-admired than ever before.
(b) He is lonely and despondent.
(c) People try to kill him when they see him.
(d) People can steal from him at will.

5. Why are the Puritans important, according to the narrator?
(a) They begin to form the national character.
(b) They are among the earliest European settlers.
(c) They find a way to survive in an inclement environment.
(d) They bring Christianity to the New World.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements shows that Eric the Red has accepted his fate?

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

3. 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."

4. What title does the narrator give Raleigh?

5. What does the narrator admire about the Pilgrims?

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