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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 did Great Britain impose the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper made in London?
(a) 1750
(b) 1779
(c) 1745
(d) 1765

2. Where did the Stono Rebellion take place?
(a) Maine
(b) Virginia
(c) Kentucky
(d) South Carolina

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

4. Christopher Columbus first encountered the Lucayan-Arawak Indians in a location known now as what?
(a) Australia
(b) The Bahamas
(c) Peru
(d) New England

5. 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) 10%
(b) 40%
(c) 25%
(d) 5%

Short Answer Questions

1. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by whom?

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

3. In Chapter 2, J. Saunders Redding writes about a ship headed for Jamestown that arrived in North America in what year?

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

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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