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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Bartolome de las Casas
(c) Martín Alonso Pinzón
(d) William Berkeley

2. When did the Stono Rebellion take place?
(a) 1776
(b) 1739
(c) 1659
(d) 1773

3. The author notes in Chapter 2 that by 1800, how many blacks had been transported as slaves to the Americas?
(a) 15 to 20 million
(b) 10 to 15 million
(c) 1 to 3 million
(d) 5 to 10 million

4. In what year was the first representative assembly introduced in Jamestown in the form of the Virginia House of Burgesses?
(a) 1625
(b) 1619
(c) 1711
(d) 1600

5. By 1619, how many blacks had already been transported from Africa to the Caribbean and South America to work as slaves, according to the author in Chapter 2?
(a) 200,000
(b) 100,000
(c) 590
(d) 1 million

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many men did Columbus leave behind at the Navidad fort?

3. When did Christopher Columbus first encounter the Arawak people?

4. What ship in Christopher Columbus’s fleet ran aground in Hispaniola, leading him to build a fort from it?

5. Where did the Stono Rebellion take place?

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