1. According to Zinn, what is his main purpose for writing A People’s History of
    the United States?
 
 

2. What is Zinn’s thesis for pages 1-11?
 
 

3. According to Zinn, how is Columbus portrayed in traditional history books?
 
 

4. Why does Zinn dispute Henry Kissinger’s statement: "History is the memory
    of  states?"
 
 

5. What is Zinn’s basic criticism of historian Samuel Eliot Morison’s book,
    Christopher Columbus, Mariner?
 
 

6. What major issues does Bartolome de las Casas bring up regarding Spanish
    expeditions in the Caribbean?
 
 

7. Identify one early and one subsequent motive that drove Columbus to
    oppress indigenous peoples.
 
 

8. What was the ultimate fate of the Arawak Indians?