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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers against what governor?
(a) Augusto César Sandino
(b) Andrew Jackson
(c) William Berkeley
(d) Jonathan Schell

2. When did Christopher Columbus first encounter the Arawak people?
(a) 1499
(b) 1479
(c) 1492
(d) 1502

3. The author notes in Chapter 4 that by 1760, there had been how many uprisings designed to create a coup to overthrown various branches of the colonial governments?
(a) 5
(b) 25
(c) 32
(d) 18

4. The author states in Chapter 1 that it is said the source of information of Columbus’s conquests on the islands was written down by a young priest named what?
(a) Jonathan Schell
(b) Martín Alonso Pinzón
(c) Bartolome de las Casas
(d) William Berkeley

5. Where did the first victory of the American Revolution take place?
(a) Jamestown, Virginia
(b) Lexington, Kentucky
(c) Yorktown, Virginia
(d) Boston, Massachusetts

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Treaty of Paris signed?

2. The author states in Chapter 2 that the history of slavery in the United States traces back to where?

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

4. When Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after inadvertently landing in the Americas, he told the Queen and King of Spain that he had reached Asia and an island off of China. In reality, Columbus had traveled to what currently-known locations?

5. In what year was the first representative assembly introduced in Jamestown in the form of the Virginia House of Burgesses?

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