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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Virtue of History Aaron Burr.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who or what is Mabilla?
(a) The woman who traveled with De Soto and translated for him.
(b) The river along which De Soto and his men were traveling.
(c) The place Do Soto had heard of, called a "country toward the rising sun."
(d) The town where the Tuscaloosa attacked De Soto and his men.

2. 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) Travel to Africa.
(c) Become a diplomat.
(d) Join the crew of a ship heading to the Americas.

3. What moral weakness does the narrator comment on in Washington?
(a) His fondness for women.
(b) His tendency to drink too much.
(c) His laziness.
(d) His refusal to free his slaves.

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

5. How does Williams say that intense emotions affect our perceptions of things?
(a) They make everything larger.
(b) They make everything better.
(c) They make everything harder.
(d) They make everything confusing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator admire about the Pilgrims?

2. What does Cotton Mather say is the cause of the degeneracy of the New England community?

3. What pet is Ponce de Leon especially attached to?

4. What is Columbus' point when he makes the following statement: "I was twenty-eight years old when I came into your Highnesses' service, and now I have not a hair upon me that is not gray; my body is infirm..."

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

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