De Vaca Quiz

Question 1

What caused the travelers great pressure?

Answer 1

Hearing the people ahead had a maze.

Question 2

These people do not raise mazes because they do not have enough arable soil.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The explorers finally reached the Gulf of Mexico, which they called the South Sea.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

An abridgement is

Answer 4

shorten version of work

Question 5

What is the best explanation for De Vacas use of the phrase “ Where the sun Sets” instead of the word “west”?

Answer 5

It was the common way of referring to this direction at the time.

Question 6

The main foods eaten by native Americans The route of Cabeza de Vaca and his party is toward the __.

Answer 6

Sunset

Question 7

Cabeza de Vaca is surprised because the Native Americans show grief only __ their family members die.

Answer 7

Before

Question 8

The Native Americans guiding Cabeza de Vaca’s party becomes afraid because of the __ of eight Native Americans.

Answer 8

Deaths

Question 9

The main foods eaten by the Native Americans and explorers are beans, squash and __.

Answer 9

Maize

Question 10

Although most of the Native Americans have little food to give the explorers, they give them plenty of __.

Answer 10

blankets

Question 11

Cabeza de Vaca calls the “liveliest and most capable” people he meets the “people of the __.

Answer 11

cows

Question 12

Two __ were sent ahead to warn other Native Americans of the explorers’ coming because women could travel anywhere.

Answer 12

women

Question 13

The attitude of Cabeza de Vaca’s Native American guides is __.

Answer 13

Fearful

Question 14

In which of the following sentences is the word “feign” used correctly?

Answer 14

You should not feign being sick in order to stay home

Question 15

These Native Americans cook their food in a gourd filled with water heated by hot stones.
Responses

Answer 15

True

Question 16

What was the main purpose of this selection?

Answer 16

To describe a trip and the people encountered on it.

Question 17

Which of the following statements about a narrative is false?

Answer 17

It is only told in Fiction

Question 18

At one point, the explorers have nothing to eat but chacan, an edible root.

Answer 18

False

Question 19

The native Americans cooked there own food in

Answer 19

Gourds

Question 20

The travel narrative could be best described as

Answer 20

Factual but somewhat biased

Question 21

Unusual

Answer 21

Singular

Question 22

Pleading with

Answer 22

besought

Question 23

gourds with hard shells

Answer 23

calabashes

Question 24

live

Answer 24

subsist

Question 25

talking

Answer 25

holding parley

Question 26

what is the most likely reason the Native Americans in this selection did not show grief when their relative dies of illness

Answer 26

They had already grieved deeply during the relative’s illness.

Question 27

Which of the following best restates the meaning of the phrase “these were the first abodes we saw that were like unto real houses”?

Answer 27

These were the first real houses that we saw on our trip.