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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Treaty of Paris signed?
(a) February 10, 1763
(b) July 28, 1629
(c) May 15, 1729
(d) September 18, 1734

2. What percentage of profits was Christopher Columbus contracted to receive for the goods he brought back to the King and Queen of Spain during his voyage when he accidentally encountered the Americas?
(a) 40%
(b) 5%
(c) 10%
(d) 25%

3. The author states in Chapter 2, “It is roughly estimated that Africa lost” how many “human beings to death and slavery in those centuries we call the beginnings of modern Western civilization”?
(a) 20 million
(b) 6 million
(c) 50 million
(d) 3 million

4. What ship in Christopher Columbus’s fleet ran aground in Hispaniola, leading him to build a fort from it?
(a) The Pinta
(b) The Nina
(c) The Gallega
(d) The Santa Maria

5. The ship headed for Jamestown that J. Saunders Redding writes about in Chapter 2 carried how many slaves?
(a) 100
(b) 30
(c) 20
(d) 50

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the first victory of the American Revolution take place?

2. When did Great Britain impose the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper made in London?

3. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?

4. Christopher Columbus erected the Navidad fort at the site of what present-day country?

5. The word “Arawak” comes from “aru” which is the Lucayan word for what?

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