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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Edgar Allen Poe.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does De Soto keep his men alive when the maize crop fails?
(a) He rations corn.
(b) He gives each man 1/2 pound of pork daily.
(c) He sends the men out to hunt and fish.
(d) He writes to Spain for help.

2. 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"?
(a) They are found in all villages.
(b) They are necessary to colonization.
(c) They are invented by all peoples.
(d) They are things all people can do without.

3. At the beginning of the Introduction, Horace Gregory quotes William Carlos Williams as saying "History, history! We fools, what do we know or care?" What does Gregory think Williams means by this?
(a) It is dangerous to get involved in history.
(b) Most Americans know little of history.
(c) History matters only to fools.
(d) History is full of lies.

4. Who is "beautiful as a cane box"?
(a) The male narrator.
(b) The Tuscaloosa.
(c) De Soto.
(d) The female narrator.

5. 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 he has seduced one of her maids.
(c) Because she is urgently in need of his advice.
(d) Because she has decided not to attack Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Montezuma tell Cortez?

2. Why do Ponce de Leon and his men travel north?

3. How does the narrator describe the descendants of the Puritans?

4. What event in Poe's life trapped him in his poetry?

5. What happens to Cortez when the Aztecs counterattack from outside the city?

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