1. Why do the Puritans have such a strong impact on the national character, according to the narrator?
(a) Because they are so dashing and heroic that everyone tells stories about them.
(b) Because they are so driven to evangelize to others.
(c) Because they are among the first to arrive in a wild place.
(d) Because they persuade everyone else to emulate them.

2. 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) People can steal from him at will.
(d) He is more well-admired than ever before.

3. What does the narrator admire about the Pilgrims?
(a) Their imagination and ingenuity.
(b) Their devotion to religion.
(c) Their fierceness and hard work.
(d) Their respect for authority.

4. What happens to the girl Ponce de Leon gives a gold crucifix to?
(a) His men capture her and steal the crucifix back.
(b) He finds her later working as a slave.
(c) He finds her later under a bush with her hands cut off.
(d) He accidentally kills her without knowing who she is.

5. Which statement shows that Gregory believes that most people revere history without understanding it?
(a) "In the reading and interpretation of history everything falls dead unless that reality is perceived."
(b) "History, like poetry, is an ancient trap laid for the credulous and narrow-minded."
(c) "There must be imagination at work to discern the fabulae of history."
(d) "The serious historian of the ancient world is careful never to forget his Homer."