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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 are Bridget Bishop and Susanna Martin indicted for?
(a) Drunkenness.
(b) Stealing.
(c) Witchcraft.
(d) Whoring.

2. 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.

3. What does Montezuma tell Cortez?
(a) That Montezuma is not a god, but flesh and blood like other men.
(b) That the Spanish cannot hope to defeat such a large and well-supplied enemy.
(c) That the Aztecs will welcome the Spanish as Allies and help them to defeat the countryside.
(d) That Cortez is not a god, but flesh and blood like other men.

4. Why does Williams criticize historian A. C. Adams at the beginning of "The May-Pole at Merry Mount"?
(a) For a lack of accuracy.
(b) For a lack of detail.
(c) For a lack of scale.
(d) For a lack of common sense.

5. Why do the Aztecs have two aqueducts?
(a) So that one can supply one half of the city, and the other can supply the other half.
(b) So that one can be used while the other is being cleaned.
(c) So that one can be used to carry water out, and the other to carry water in.
(d) So that enough water can be provided for the needs of the emperor and his entourage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Columbus want to do instead of traveling to the New World again?

2. What title does the narrator give Raleigh?

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

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

5. What is the overall tone of Williams' remarks about the Puritans?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes Houston a good example of someone who "came up from under"?

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

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

4. In his letter to Benjamin Franklin, why does John Paul Jones keep bringing up the conduct of Captain Landais?

5. What was shocking to the Puritans about slave society?

6. Why did De Soto's men try to keep the Indians from finding out about his death?

7. How did Freydis trick her husband? What happened as a result?

8. What are De Soto's relations with the Indians like?

9. How did Cortez feel about burning Tenochtitlan?

10. How could Raleigh have avoided being beheaded?

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