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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Menendez explained he could not be with a non-Christian woman, Carlos said to do what?
(a) Pretend she was a Christian.
(b) Forget being a Christian.
(c) Find a new wife.
(d) Make her Christian.

2. Menendez renamed the woman Dona ______________.
(a) Isabella.
(b) Antonia.
(c) Menendez.
(d) Priscilla.

3. The Seminoles were the Indians of _______________ Florida.
(a) Eastern.
(b) Northern.
(c) Southern.
(d) Western.

4. The ______________ settled around the great central lake.
(a) Calusa.
(b) Jeaga.
(c) Mayaimi.
(d) Tekesta.

5. What happens when the rain stops?
(a) A long cold winter.
(b) A short hot summer.
(c) A short cold winter.
(d) A long hot summer.

6. Maps drawn in the early ______________ suggested the existence of Cuba, Jamaica, the Bahamas, and Florida, but they were wrong in their estimated distances.
(a) 1300s.
(b) 1100s.
(c) 1400s.
(d) 1200s.

7. A thirteen-year-old boy named Escalante de Fonteneda remained with the Indians for how many years?
(a) Eleven.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Thirteen.

8. What had happened to the person Menendez was looking for?
(a) He had not survived.
(b) She had not survived.
(c) He had been severely wounded.
(d) She had been severely wounded.

9. Menendez, who was looking for ___________, found his party held captive by Chief Carlos.
(a) His brother.
(b) His daughter.
(c) His wife.
(d) His son.

10. This rock structure is referred to as the Floridian ____________.
(a) Plate.
(b) Platelet.
(c) Plateau.
(d) Plantar.

11. What happened to one of the priests?
(a) He was killed.
(b) He became lost.
(c) He became ill.
(d) He was tortured.

12. Why did many of the Indians die?
(a) As a result of stress and fear caused by the white man.
(b) As a result of malnourishment.
(c) As a result of war.
(d) As a result of the diseases of the white man.

13. In the end, did Menendez achieve leadership in Florida?
(a) No.
(b) Mostly.
(c) Yes.
(d) Somewhat.

14. Since Florida is a peninsula, what happened to the animals that migrated there?
(a) They swam away.
(b) They turned around and returned home.
(c) They were trapped.
(d) They died.

15. The rains begin in ________________.
(a) May or June.
(b) March or April.
(c) June or July.
(d) April or May.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Menendez secure the release of all of the captives?

2. Rock lies below the water of Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades. The rock is ________________ and is usually not exposed unless there is a drought.

3. Menendez returned once more to Florida, this time with ___________ Jesuits.

4. In Chapter 5, the explorations continue where?

5. They began to hypothesize that the world was what?

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