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be a poor geographer. He ended up in a debtor‘s 
prison. He never realised that he had discovered 
unknown western continents, and to his dying 
day in 1506 he never admitted to locating any 
place but the Indies. Geographers overlooked his 
contribution and named the Western continents 
after another mariner, Amerigo Vespucci, a 
merchant from Florence who participated in a 
Portuguese expedition to South Americas in 1501. 
In a widely reprinted letter, Vespucci contended 
that a ―new world‖ had been found, and it was his 
name that caught on.

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85- It is clear from the passage that ......... .
A) the New World was named after the sailor 
having claimed to have found it 
B) Columbus never wanted to believe that he had 
discovered the New World 
C) Amerigo Vespucci had financed the exhibition 
himself 
D) the majority of geographers have disdained 
Columbus‟s contribution 
E) Columbus was afraid to declare the newly-found 
land to be a new continent 
86- The author feels that .......... .
A) it was unfair for Columbus to die in debtor‟s 
dungeon 
B) Amerigo Vespucci did not show consideration 
for Columbus‟s success 
C) Columbus‟s knowledge of geography was 
inadequate 
D) Vespucci was not as popular with geographers 
as Columbus was 
E) Columbus could not persuade people that he had 
found a new continent 
87- It can be deduced that ......... .
A) Vespucci and Columbus had never sailed 
together 
B) Columbus had wished the new continent to be 
called „Indies‟ 
C) Vespucci was the mariner whose name really 
deserved to be given to America 
D) the lifetime of Columbus and Vespucci did not 
coincide with each other 
E) Amerigo Vespucci was a better geographer than 
Columbus was