Question

Which of the following lines from “How the Spaniards Came to Shung-opovi, How They Built a Mission, and How the Hopi Destroyed the Mission” best shows the narrator’s point of view that the Spaniards were trying to change the religion of the Hopi people? "When the priests started to build the mission, the men were sent away over near the San Francisco peaks to get the pine or spruce beams." "Now during this time the men would go out pretending they were going on a hunting trip, and they would go to some hiding place, to make their prayer offerings." "When this mission was finally built, all the people in the village had to come there to worship, and those who did not come were punished severely." "The Spaniards, whom they called Castillia, told the people that they had much more power than all their chiefs and a whole lot more power than the witches."

Answer 1

When the mission was finally build, so that all the people would come and worship and does that did not come were punished severely

Answer 2

Answer: The line that best shows the narrator’s point of view that the Spaniards were trying to change the religion of the Hopi people is  "When this mission was finally built, all the people in the village had to come there to worship, and those who did not come were punished severely".

Explanation: A mission is defined as the activity of a religious group of spreading their faith to the rest of the people in order to convince them to adopt their religion. The line "When this mission was finally built, all the people in the village had to come there to worship, and those who did not come were punished severely" implies that the religious organization formed by the Spaniards forced people in the village to worship their god instead of letting them worship the god they believed in before the Spaniards arrived. Moreover, this line also expresses that villagers who refused to change their religion were punished.