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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Edgar Allen Poe.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Cortez when the Aztecs counterattack from outside the city?
(a) He is forced to negotiate a temporary treaty in order to escape with his life.
(b) He and his men defeat them easily.
(c) He loses everything and has to flee with his men.
(d) He and his men win after a long battle.

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

3. Who or what is Mabilla?
(a) The river along which De Soto and his men were traveling.
(b) The woman who traveled with De Soto and translated for him.
(c) The place Do Soto had heard of, called a "country toward the rising sun."
(d) The town where the Tuscaloosa attacked De Soto and his men.

4. What event has distracted historians from telling the whole story about Burr?
(a) The French and Indian War.
(b) The American Revolution.
(c) Shea's rebellion.
(d) The duel with Alexander Hamilton.

5. What does Columbus do when he thinks the ship might capsize?
(a) He has a meeting of his crew and asks everyone to try his best.
(b) He puts a note in a cask and throws it into the sea.
(c) He prays that the ship will make it back to Spain.
(d) He curses the day he ever set out to find the New World.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is De Soto looking for?

2. Who does the narrator say that the Puritans went on to persecute later?

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

4. What does Poe call Longfellow?

5. What does the narrator say was the place where Washington most liked to be?

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