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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is De Soto looking for?
(a) The Fountain of Youth
(b) Food.
(c) Treasure.
(d) Slaves.

2. What kind of woman is Freydis?
(a) Fierce.
(b) Foolish.
(c) Submissive.
(d) Dedicated.

3. What does Columbus think of the New World when he reaches it?
(a) He thinks that he would like to build a house and live there himself.
(b) He thinks it is the most beautiful place he has ever seen.
(c) He thinks that it is too desolate to have any worthwhile resources.
(d) He thinks that it is far too hot and humid for his taste.

4. How much time does Samuel de Champlain spend in North America before he is permitted to establish a French colony?
(a) Three years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Fifteen years.
(d) Ten years.

5. What happens when Thorgest tries to steal from Eric the Red?
(a) Eric the Red tries to remove his property, but Eric the Red's two sons are killed in the melee.
(b) Eric the Red has to give in and let Thorgest take his property.
(c) Eric the Red removes his property, and in the ensuing chase, two of Thorgest's sons are killed.
(d) Eric the Red decides to steal from Thorgest in return, on his way into exile.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the Puritans important, according to the narrator?

2. Why does Williams criticize historian A. C. Adams at the beginning of "The May-Pole at Merry Mount"?

3. 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."

4. Which of the following statements shows that Eric the Red has accepted his fate?

5. How does Freydis handle her quarrel with the two brothers, Helgi and Finnbogi?

Short Essay Questions

1. How could Raleigh have avoided being beheaded?

2. What proof does Cotton Mather offer to show that witches can make themselves invisible?

3. Why does Gregory not fully appreciate the chapter on Cotton Mather?

4. How does Williams say that Boone differs from other settlers?

5. Why does George Washington not especially want to be President?

6. Why was Eric the Red exiled from Iceland?

7. What does Williams think about Lincoln's assassin?

8. What is Champlain's reaction to hearing that there will be an attempt on his life?

9. Why does Williams say that Mendelberg is like a woman as he conducts his orchestra? How is Lincoln like Mendelberg?

10. What kind of person does Williams say that Daniel Boone is?

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