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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. Who does Columbus write to while he is on his return voyage?
(a) The King and Queen of Spain.
(b) His wife.
(c) His family members in Europe.
(d) Friends who were left behind in the New World.

2. What incident "greatly annoys" Champlain and delays the construction of Quebec?
(a) A fur trade dispute with a Basque ship.
(b) A very severe series of thunderstorms.
(c) A disagreement among the settlers about where to locate the city.
(d) A battle with the Indians.

3. What does Columbus do when he thinks the ship might capsize?
(a) He curses the day he ever set out to find the New World.
(b) He has a meeting of his crew and asks everyone to try his best.
(c) He prays that the ship will make it back to Spain.
(d) He puts a note in a cask and throws it into the sea.

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

5. How does Ponce de Leon die?
(a) He is killed by an Indian arrow.
(b) He is killed by his own men in a mutiny.
(c) He dies of disease.
(d) He dies of old age.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the Greenlanders fight with the people they meet in the New World?

2. What does the narrator say about the Puritan soul?

3. Why do the Aztecs have two aqueducts?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator say that the Puritans would see if they looked inside their hearts?

2. Why did the English put a price on Pire Rasles' head? Why did they want him killed?

3. Why does Gregory think that history is important?

4. Why does Benjamin Franklin say that manufacturing is not a viable activity in the American economy?

5. Why do the Puritan leaders think that Thomas Morton should not barter in guns or liquor?

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

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

8. Why does the narrator hold Raleigh responsible for Raleigh's son's death?

9. How did enslaved Africans react to the Christian religion, according to Williams?

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

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