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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. These people are believed to have arrived in the Everglades around ________ AD.
(a) 300.
(b) 900.
(c) 700.
(d) 500.

2. In Florida, Menendez asked Carlos if he was prepared to do what?
(a) Become a Christian.
(b) Marry.
(c) Die.
(d) Leave Florida.

3. Since Florida is a peninsula, what happened to the animals that migrated there?
(a) They were trapped.
(b) They swam away.
(c) They died.
(d) They turned around and returned home.

4. What was unique about the return trip to Europe?
(a) The explorers did not bring any captives.
(b) The Indians who traveled with them were the first Indians to travel to Europe.
(c) The Indians were the first to steer a ship.
(d) The explorers got lost.

5. He reached ____________ and felt that his final destination was just beyond.
(a) Bimini.
(b) Florida.
(c) The Bahamas.
(d) Bermuda.

6. The maps they made contained many errors. Why?
(a) They were not very intelligent.
(b) They did not find maps to be of much importance.
(c) They did not have the precision instruments required to correctly determine latitude and longitude.
(d) They were very careless.

7. When does another rainy season begin?
(a) August or September.
(b) September or October.
(c) June or July.
(d) July or August.

8. Why did many of the Indians die?
(a) As a result of stress and fear caused by the white man.
(b) As a result of the diseases of the white man.
(c) As a result of malnourishment.
(d) As a result of war.

9. Who was the first to reach Florida?
(a) Jim Carrey.
(b) John Cabot.
(c) Jacques Corbet.
(d) Johnson Charles.

10. There was an Indian __________ business and many smugglers.
(a) Education.
(b) Bride.
(c) Indentured servent.
(d) Slave.

11. Maps drawn in the early ______________ suggested the existence of Cuba, Jamaica, the Bahamas, and Florida, but they were wrong in their estimated distances.
(a) 1300s.
(b) 1100s.
(c) 1200s.
(d) 1400s.

12. There was talk of legendary islands west of what country?
(a) France.
(b) England.
(c) Spain.
(d) Portugal.

13. The rains begin in ________________.
(a) June or July.
(b) April or May.
(c) May or June.
(d) March or April.

14. Colonies were established in various parts of the world as a result of what?
(a) Air travel.
(b) The railroad.
(c) Sea travel.
(d) New roads.

15. After the explorers reached Mexico and its riches, only ________________ was interested in Florida.
(a) Vadino Vivaldi.
(b) Juan Ponce de Leon.
(c) Marco Polo.
(d) Giovanni de Plano Carpini.

Short Answer Questions

1. The ___________ tribe settled in the area around Tallahassee.

2. The rains usually end by the end of _________.

3. What had happened to the person Menendez was looking for?

4. When the tribes moved further south, they adopted the habits of the ____________.

5. New technology resulted in navigation equipment like compasses and astrolabes, even though they had few _________.

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