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/         QUESTIONS:
/1.  THE AUTHOR FEELS THAT THE "UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES AND
/AMAZING TEMPTATIONS" AT THAT TIME
/(A) ARE INTERESTING BUT HISTORICALLY UNIMPORTANT
/(B) WERE PREVALENT THROUGHOUT EUROPE
/(C) DO NOT FURNISH AN EXCUSE FOR THE PIRACY
/(D) WERE THE RUIN OF THE BUCCANEERS
	C
/2.  COLUMBUS
/(A) STARTED OUT AS AN HONEST EXPLORER BUT LATER
/   ENGAGED IN PIRACY
/(B) WAS A PIRATE BEFORE HIS EXPLORATIONS
/(C) STARTED OUT AS AN HONEST EXPLORER BUT WAS
/    CURRUPTED BY THE GREED OF THE SPANISH COURT
/(D) NEVER ENGAGED IN SERIOUS PIRACY
	A
/3.  THE BUCCANEERS ENGAGED IN PIRACY BECAUSE
/(A) IT WAS PROFITABLE
/(B) THEY LEARNED TO LIKE IT
/(C) AS CRIMINALS, THEY HAD NO OTHER WORK
/(D) BOTH (A) AND (B)
	D
/4. QUEEN ISABELLA
/(A) OVERLOOKED COLUMBUS" PIRACY BECAUSE OF THE TREASURE
/     HE BROUGHT BACK
/(B) OVERLOOKED THE PIRACY BUT RETURNED THE SLAVES
/(C) NEVER LEARNED OF THE PIRACY UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE
/(D) HAD COLUMBUS BROUGHT BACK IN CHAINS
	D
/5.  WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WAS NOT ALLEGED OF COLUMBUS
/(A) USING BLOODHOUNDS TO RECAPTURE ESCAPED SLAVES
/(B) ROBBERY OF THE ISLANDS MINES AND SOILS
/(C) MURDERING MEMBERS OF HIS CREW WHO OPPOSED HIS ACTIONS
/(D) DISREGARDING QUEEN ISABELLA"S ORDERS
	C
/6. HOW MANY SLAVES DID COLUMBUS SEND TO SPAIN AT ONE TIME
/(A) 100
/(B) 300
/(C) 400
/(D) 500
	B
/7.  THE "PRINCIPAL SCENE" OF COLUMBUS^ ACTIONS WAS
/(A) HAITI
/(B) WEST INDIES
/(C) CARRIBBEAN
/(D) NONE OF THE ABOVE
	A
/8. ADJECTIVES USED TO DESCRIBE THE NATIVES WERE
/(A) SIMPLE-HEARTED, INOFFENSIVE
/(B) SIMPLE-HEARTED, BELLIGERENT
/(C) BELLIGERENT, OFFENSIVE
/(D) DEFENSELESS, KIND
	A
/9.  COLUMBUS WAS SUPERSEDED IN HIS COMMAND BECAUSE
/(A) HE WAS INJURED FIGHTING THE INDIANS
/(B) HE REFUSED TO RETURN FOR A SECOND VOYAGE
/(C) HE BROUGHT BACK MORE SLAVES AGAINST ISABELLA"S ORDERS
/(D) BECAUSE OF HIS ALLEGED ATROCITIES
	D
/10.  ANOTHER EXPLORER ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN A PIRATE WAS
/(A)  COOK
/(B)  MAGGELLAN
/(C)  DRAKE
/(D)  PORTOGUEZ
	C



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