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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Christopher Columbus erected the Navidad fort at the site of what present-day country?
(a) Peru
(b) Trinidad
(c) Haiti
(d) Brazil

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The ship headed for Jamestown that J. Saunders Redding writes about in Chapter 2 carried how many slaves?

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

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

4. What did Columbus find when he returned to the Navidad fort after his journey back to Spain?

5. 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?

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