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What did Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and his men do first when they landed on the island?

• cooked food and drank water
• prepared to return to sea in their barge
• sought shelter in empty huts
• met the Island's inhabitants

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Cabeza de Vaca's role during the first meeting between his men and the Karakawas was to _____.

• make peace with the Karankawas
• beg the Karankawas to take them to their home
• act as a medicine man for the Karankawas
• gather wood for making fire

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What did the Spaniards try to do after they received food and supplies from the Karankawas?

• communicate their thanks using signs
• send Lope de Oviedo to scout the area
• travel to the Karankawas' village
• leave the island in their barge

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When the Native Americans saw the two drowned Spaniards, they felt_____.

• confused
• hostile
• sad
• helpless

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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca attributes the fact that his barge survived the storm to ____.

• the abatement of the storm
• rescue by the Native Americans
• God's great mercy
• a change in wind direction

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When the Spaniards and the Native American first met, the Native American _____.

• followed Lope de Oviedo, who had taken some of their goods
• waited on the shore to welcome the Spaniards to their islands
• witnessed Cabeza de Vaca and his men acting as medicine men
• heard the Spaniards struggling in the water after their barge capsized

Cabeza de Vaca's men were anxious about going to the Native American village. This reflects the Spaniards' knowledge of which aspect of their historical context?

• disappearances of earlier conquistadors
• diseases common among Native Americans
• the practice of human sacrifice among Aztecs
• the Spanish king's desire to colonize the land

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Cabeza de Vaca explains in his primary source account that the Spaniards went to the Karankawas' village because he _____.

• communicated by signs Lope de Oviedo's request for help
• earned the Karankawas' favor by cauterizing the wound of one of their sick members
• begged the Karankawas to take him and his men to their village
• gave them beads and bells in exchange for warmth and food

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What healing method did Cabeza de Vaca and his men use on the sick Karankawas?

• laying hands and blowing on the sick person
• blessing the sick person and reciting prayers
• sucking and cauterizing the wound
• passing a pebble along the sick person's stomach

The Spanish explorers' attitudes toward each other seem to be mainly

• envious

• sympathetic

• fearful

• irritable

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