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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 is the overall tone of Williams' remarks about the Puritans?
(a) Wonder.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Contempt.
(d) Admiration.

2. Who does the narrator say that the Puritans went on to persecute later?
(a) The atheists.
(b) The Indians.
(c) The Quakers.
(d) The Spanish.

3. What happens when the Greenlanders fight with the people they meet in the New World?
(a) Helgi and Finnbogi save Freydis' life, rescuing her just as their enemies in the New World were about to kill her.
(b) Eric the Red appears with a group of young Greenlander sailors, and the Greenlanders gain the advantage in the fight.
(c) The other Greenlanders begin to flee, but Freydis grabs a sword and fights so hard that she frightens their enemies into fleeing.
(d) The Greenlanders are defeated by the people of the New World and flee in shame.

4. Why does Queen Elizabeth call Raleigh back when he goes with the fleet to attack Spain?
(a) Because she intends to send him to the Americas instead.
(b) Because she has decided not to attack Spain.
(c) Because he has seduced one of her maids.
(d) Because she is urgently in need of his advice.

5. What does Gregory think that In the American Grain is meant to do for the American national identity?
(a) Mock it.
(b) Shape it.
(c) Criticize it.
(d) Celebrate it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the girl Ponce de Leon gives a gold crucifix to?

2. When Champlain advocates on behalf of building a colony, what is the one personal favor he asks of the King of France?

3. Toward the end of the introduction, Gregory quotes the following passage: "Question him in hell, O Muse, where he has gone, and when there is an answer, sing and make clear the reasons that he gave for that last blow. Why did he send his son into that tropic jungle and not go himself, upon so dangerous an errand?" Why does Gregory include this quote?

4. Who is Thomas Morton?

5. Who does Columbus write to while he is on his return voyage?

(see the answer key)

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