Q 01/05
A) Nantes
B) Saint-Malo
C) Brest
D) Le Havre
Answer · why
He is buried in the town's cathedral and appears often in its baptismal registers as a godfather.
Q 02/05
A) Louis XII
B) Charles VIII
C) Francis I
D) Henry II
Answer · why
He had earlier backed Verrazzano's 1524 exploration of the North American coast.
Q 03/05
A) Guillaume Briçonnet
B) Georges d'Amboise
C) Jacques Amyot
D) Jean Le Veneur
Answer · why
He was abbot of Mont Saint-Michel and cited Cartier's voyages to Newfoundland and Brazil.
Q 04/05
A) The Norse settlement of Vinland
B) A western passage to the East Indies
C) A shorter route to Brazil
D) The Fountain of Youth in Florida
Answer · why
His commission spoke of lands 'where it is said that a great quantity of gold and other precious things are to be found'.
Q 05/05
A) One hundred days
B) Twenty days
C) Six days
D) Two months
Answer · why
He began exploring Newfoundland and the Gulf on 10 May 1534.
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