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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) Haiti
(c) Trinidad
(d) Brazil

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

3. Who among Christopher Columbus’s shipmates took the Pinta on an unauthorized expedition in search of an island called "Babeque" to search for gold while in Cuba?
(a) Martín Alonso Pinzón
(b) Bartolome de las Casas
(c) William Berkeley
(d) Nathan Bacon

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

5. According to the author in Chapter 4, in 1700 colonial trade equaled £500,000; by 1770 it totaled how much?
(a) £2,800,000
(b) £1,500,000
(c) £1,000,000
(d) £800,000

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Christopher Columbus first encountered the Lucayan-Arawak Indians in a location known now as what?

3. When was the Tea Act passed by the British Parliament?

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?

5. When was the United States Bill of Rights ratified?

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