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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Houston do after he resigns as Governor of Tennessee?
(a) He goes West to explore.
(b) He settled down on a homestead and built a house.
(c) He decides to go back to school.
(d) He joins the Indians who had been relocated to Arkansas.

2. What adjective does the narrator use to describe Boone's character?
(a) Brave.
(b) Mild.
(c) Strong.
(d) Temperamental.

3. What area does Boone discover, along with his brother, just before the American Revolution?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Illinois.

4. What does the narrator's interlocutor, Valyry Larbaud, admire about the Puritans?
(a) Their resourcefulness.
(b) Their intellectual ability.
(c) Their tolerance of other religions.
(d) Their firm vigor.

5. What does Williams compare the various incidents of Lincoln's life to?
(a) Instruments playing in an orchestra.
(b) Ridges of a sculpture that should be made of Lincoln.
(c) Lines in a carefully crafted poem.
(d) Dancers doing a series of intricately choreographed steps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Daniel Boone different from other settlers, according to the narrator?

2. How does Captain Landais' insubordination to John Paul Jones begin?

3. Why does John Paul Jones write to Benjamin Franklin in "Battle Between the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis"?

4. What does Williams say is the one thing that Americans fear more than anything else in the world?

5. What happens to Pere Rasles?

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