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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poor Richard Benjamin Franklin.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Raleigh returns to England after his son's death?
(a) He is knighted.
(b) He is beheaded.
(c) He is stripped of his knighthood.
(d) He is sent away on another voyage.

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

3. Who tells Ponce de Leon there is a fountain of youth?
(a) An old woman.
(b) A child.
(c) An old man.
(d) One of his own men.

4. Who did Ponce de Leon's pilot previously work for?
(a) Montezuma.
(b) Ponce de Leon's brother.
(c) The King and Queen of Spain.
(d) Columbus and Cortez.

5. Who is the only person in America who can live a life of leisure, like a gentleman, according to an early American saying that Franklin mentions?
(a) A child.
(b) A housewife.
(c) A hog.
(d) The President.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the Puritan elders to finally get fed up with Thomas Morton?

2. What does Cotton Mather think about the gods of the Indian nations?

3. Which statement shows that Gregory believes that most people revere history without understanding it?

4. Which of the following quotations reveals Williams' opinion of Cortez?

5. Why isn't the French Conquest as severe as the Spanish one?

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