A Different Mirror

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-book review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. In Takaki’s recounting of European settlement of the “New World” in Part 1, what does he cite as the main reason why Vikings eventually abandoned their settlement in Newfoundland and returned to Greenland?

A) The possibility of warfare with Indigenous populations    

B) They missed their homeland, particularly their close social ties with family.

C) They heard rumors of riches and other opportunities in the Middle East.

D)They found the climate hostile and uninviting.

2. In the early 1600s, Takaki writes of how Indigenous populations suffered at the hands of European settlers for two main reasons: because they were dispossessed of their territory and also for which of the following?

A) Stolen cultural Indigenous artifacts    

B) Taunting and the disparaging of Indigenous social conventions    

C) Sickness from new diseases, like smallpox    

D) The sterilization of Indigenous men and women of a child-bearing age    

3. According to Takaki, how does Caliban’s representation in The Tempest reinforce contemporary notions of ethnic minorities?

A) Caliban is depicted as possessing frightening demonic powers.

B) Caliban speaks only in riddles and falsehoods.

C) Caliban is described as deceitful, dark, and foul.

D) Caliban speaks English, but with a heavy foreign accent.