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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 does Gregory think that In the American Grain is meant to do for the American national identity?
(a) Criticize it.
(b) Celebrate it.
(c) Mock it.
(d) Shape it.

2. What explanation does the narrator give for the Puritans' lack of imagination?
(a) They do not have materials with which to exercise their creativity.
(b) They think their lives depend on doing things the same way every time.
(c) They are afraid being imaginative would cut them off from the others.
(d) They believe that God does not approve of imagination.

3. What does Eric the Red say that his life is like now that he has been exiled?
(a) He is lonely and despondent.
(b) People try to kill him when they see him.
(c) He is more well-admired than ever before.
(d) People can steal from him at will.

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

5. What is Williams trying to tell the reader about Columbus when he quotes details about how harrowing the storms at sea during Columbus' voyages were?
(a) Columbus' courage.
(b) Columbus' foolhardiness.
(c) Columbus' literary skill.
(d) Columbus' good judgment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Montezuma asks his people not to fight back against the Spanish?

2. Why is Ponce de Leon free to go exploring in Florida?

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

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

5. What does Montezuma tell Cortez?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Eric the Red exiled from Iceland?

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

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

4. What were some of the dangers faced by sailors on ships during a battle at sea?

5. What was Aaron Burr like, according to Williams?

6. Why is Columbus puzzled by the way the King and Queen treat him?

7. Does Williams blame Cortez for what happened to Tenochtitlan?

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

9. What happens to Columbus' sailors when the weather is bad and the ships go through violent storms?

10. What was Montezuma's life like in the capital?

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