Eng 3B Gathering of Voices Review #2

1. For which of these reasons did most of the European explorers of the Americas record their

experiences?

• a. They were great scholars.

• b. Writing was a way to pass the time during long expeditions.

• c. They wanted to report their experiences to those at home.

• d. They wanted to sell their stories as published works.

2. Why do the natives in A Journey through Texas send women with advance messages that the

Spanish are coming?

• a. Only women can travel safely between enemy groups.

• b. The women are the only ones available for the journey.

• c. The Spanish fear the men will attack them and demand that only women go.

• d. The women know the terrain better than the men do.

3. Why are the Spaniards overjoyed to learn that the native peoples they will meet have permanent

houses and evidently have ample (a lot) food stocks? Select all that apply

• a. They will be able to learn more about how the Native Americans live.

• b. They will be able to secure provisions (food & supplies) for their journey.

• c. They will be able to bring food to the ill natives they have left behind.

• d. They will be able to report to the King that people can live here permanently.

4. According to Cabeza de Vaca, why do some of the natives request that the Spanish ask Heaven

to send down rain?

• a. They feel the Spanish have a special relationship with the heavenly powers; they think they are gods.

• b. They are desperate for rain and will seek help from any source.

• c. They believe that the Spanish secretly have the knowledge to create rain.

• d. They are attempting to flatter the Spanish.

5. According to Cabeza de Vaca, why do the native peoples greet the explorers with great

ceremonies?

• a. To the natives, the Spanish seem like heavenly beings and command great respect.

• b. The natives are accustomed to greeting all visitors with lavish ceremonies.

• c. The natives place great stock in complicated rituals.

• d. The natives hope to make the Spanish allies against their enemies.

6.  Surprisingly, no passengers died aboard the ship on the passage across the ocean to the New World.

• TRUE

• FALSE

7. The ship arrived in the New World during the winter, a bad time for planting seeds.

• TRUE

• FALSE

8.  Out of the one hundred original passengers on the ship, about 10 died the first two or three months in the New World.

• TRUE

• FALSE

9.  There were so many Puritans who became sick in the settlement that the few who were well decided to band together and take care of those who were ill.

• TRUE

• FALSE

10.  The Native Americans and settlers agreed to a peaceful treaty, which had several terms or conditions.

• TRUE

• FALSE