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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many men did Columbus leave behind at the Navidad fort?
(a) 39
(b) 20
(c) 19
(d) 59
2. What ship in Christopher Columbus’s fleet ran aground in Hispaniola, leading him to build a fort from it?
(a) The Nina
(b) The Pinta
(c) The Gallega
(d) The Santa Maria
3. When was the Treaty of Paris signed?
(a) July 28, 1629
(b) September 18, 1734
(c) May 15, 1729
(d) February 10, 1763
4. In Chapter 2, J. Saunders Redding writes about a ship headed for Jamestown that arrived in North America in what year?
(a) 1619
(b) 1625
(c) 1698
(d) 1711
5. Where did the Dorr Rebellion take place?
(a) Connecticut
(b) Maine
(c) Massachusetts
(d) Rhode Island
Short Answer Questions
1. When did the Flour Riot break out in New York City?
2. Where did the Stono Rebellion take place?
3. What title refers to the fictional story of a woman put on trial in 1747 for having an illegitimate child?
4. The Louisiana Purchase was an acquisition by the United States of lands claimed by France totally how many square miles?
5. What were the two main resources sought by Christopher Columbus on his voyage when he first encountered the Arawaks?
Short Essay Questions
1. What choice were the Native American people given in regard to their futures and their homes, according to the author in Chapter 7?
2. How does the author describe history’s depiction of women in the beginning of Chapter 6?
3. How does the author describe the growing violence surrounding slavery in the 1860s and 1870s in Chapter 9?
4. How does the author describe the uprisings in Kentucky and other colonies in 1760 in Chapter 4?
5. When and where did Dorr’s Rebellion occur? How does the author describe the surrounding circumstances of this event in Chapter 10?
6. What did Columbus discover when he returned to his fort at Navidad on his second journey, according to the author in Chapter 1? What did he take with him?
7. Who wrote the history of Columbus’s adventures in Cuba from the perspective of the inhabitants, according to the author in Chapter 1?
8. How does the author describe the beginning of the American Revolutionary War in Chapter 5? How successful were the Americans in the first battles?
9. What author spent a night in jail following his protest of the Mexican-American War? Why was he arrested?
10. How does the author describe Virginia’s “chain of oppression” in Chapter 3?
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