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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 happens to Cortez when the Aztecs counterattack from outside the city?
(a) He and his men win after a long battle.
(b) He is forced to negotiate a temporary treaty in order to escape with his life.
(c) He and his men defeat them easily.
(d) He loses everything and has to flee with his men.

2. According to the narrator, which of the following is a logical outgrowth of the Puritan spirit?
(a) Inventiveness and resourcefulness.
(b) Know-nothingism and opportunism.
(c) Democracy and collective responsibility.
(d) Creativity and genius.

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

4. What people do Karlsefni and Snorri find in the New World?
(a) The Iroquois.
(b) The Inuit.
(c) The Abenaki.
(d) The Skrellings.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the outcome of Freydis' actions?

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

4. 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."

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

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