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Quiz for Document 1-6: Brother Luis Brandaon, Letter to Father Sandoval (1610)

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Question 1

Brother Luis Brandaon’s 1610 letter to Father Sandoval provides evidence to support which of the following conclusions?A. Although some questioned it, the Catholic Church fully sanctioned and facilitated the African slave trade.
B. Christian ideology led a majority of Catholic priests to question the morality of slavery and resist the slave trade.
C. Although Catholic priests in Africa participated in the slave trade, American priests were reluctant to embrace it.
D. Despite the Christian position on slaves, the seventeenth-century Catholic Church was the primary force behind the African slave trade.

Question 2

Father Sandoval’s primary concern, to which Brother Brandaon is responding, was theA. economic viability of slave labor.
B. legal status of slaves arriving in Brazil.
C. morality of trade in human beings.
D. number of enslaved children.

Question 3

Although Brandaon acknowledges that some number of slaves transported to Brazil may have been captured “illegally,” he does not believe the matter worth investigating because the numbers are too small to be significant and theA. Angolans are to blame for the illegal captures.
B. financial costs would be too high.
C. greater number of slaves are brought to Christian salvation.
D. slaves are not human beings who deserve aid.