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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The May-Pole at Merry Mount.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say that Queen Elizabeth did not trust Raleigh enough to let him do?
(a) Serve on great councils.
(b) Serve in the army.
(c) Go on voyages of exploration.
(d) Marry one of her maids.

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

4. What does Queen Elizabeth force Raleigh to do when she calls him back from the fleet's attack on Spain?
(a) Marry one of her maids.
(b) Join the crew of a ship heading to the Americas.
(c) Become a diplomat.
(d) Travel to Africa.

5. How much time does Samuel de Champlain spend in North America before he is permitted to establish a French colony?
(a) Three years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Fifteen years.
(d) Five years.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Which chapter does Gregory say is in some ways the product of the era in which it was written?

3. What does Gregory think that In the American Grain is meant to do for the American national identity?

4. What is Tenochtitlan like?

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

(see the answer key)

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