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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Williams say that Africans came enslaved from Africa for?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Agriculture.
(c) Racism.
(d) Hope.

2. Why does Williams feel that women especially appreciated Burr?
(a) Burr treated women with respect and wanted them to be free.
(b) Burr was well-educated and had a distinguished military record.
(c) Burr was extremely handsome and dashing.
(d) Burr did not care about religion.

3. Why does the narrator admire Pere Rasles?
(a) He mapped the area where the Abnaki lived.
(b) He lived with the Abnaki Indians for 34 years.
(c) He provided useful information to the English.
(d) He converted many Puritans to Catholicism.

4. How does the narrator describe George Washington's character at the beginning of "George Washington"?
(a) He says that Washington was ambitious.
(b) He says that Washington was corrupted by power.
(c) He says that Washington rarely told the truth.
(d) He says that Washington was a good man.

5. What characteristic drives Franklin's curiosity, according to one of the narrators of "Poor Richard"?
(a) Thrift.
(b) Timidity.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Vexation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the "Poor Richard" narrator say is a common misconception that Europeans have about America?

2. What part of Poe's reputation does Williams say is undeserved?

3. What area does Boone discover, along with his brother, just before the American Revolution?

4. Which of the following adjectives best describes the narrator's experience of Paris?

5. Which Founding Father refers to Aaron Burr as dangerous?

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