The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 20

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"The early discourse of the New World then is full of questions that cannot be asked or answers that cannot be understood. 'Due to the lack of language,' complains Verrazzano,'we were unable to find out by signs or gestures how much religious faith these people we found possessed.' Canoes of Indians,Cartier writes,'came after our long-boat dancing and showing many signs of joy,and of their desire to be friends,saying to us in their language: Napou tou daman asurtat,and other words,we did not understand…And seeing that no matter how much we signed to them,they would not go back,we shot off over their heads two small cannon.'"
Stephen Greenblatt,Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World,1991
-A significant result of the kinds of encounters like the one described here was that

• A) mutual misunderstandings would define the early interactions between Europeans and Native Americans.
• B) deadly epidemics would devastate native populations.
• C) European religious and political leaders would be forced to justify their subjugation of the native peoples.
• D) new economic systems, like the encomienda, would be necessary to profit in the New World.

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