Unit 4 Formative 1
  • 1. What was the purpose of Portuguese exploration?
A) new trade routes
B) rescue sailers at sea
C) find gold
D) trees for new ships
  • 2. Which explorer was the first to sail around Africa?
A) Vasco da Gama
B) Leif Ericson
C) Eric the Red
D) Bartholomew Dias
  • 3. Who controlled trade in India?
A) England
B) China
C) Arabs
D) France
  • 4. Which explorer founded Greenland?
A) Hernan Cortez
B) Columbus
C) Eric the Red
D) Leif Ericson
  • 5. What was one fear the Portuguese had about sailing too far south?
A) eels
B) sea monsters
C) lions
D) sharks
  • 6. What kind of ivory did the Vikings in Greenland trade?
A) narwhal Ivory
B) hippopotamus ivory
C) elephant Ivory
D) walrus Ivory
  • 7. Which explorer discovered Brazil by accident?
A) Jacques Cartier
B) Pedro Alvares Cabral
C) Henry Hudson
D) John Cabot
  • 8. What did the Vikings called the native people in Vinland?
A) Inuit
B) Scrailings
C) Indians
D) Canadians
  • 9. What are the stories Vikings told and passed down?
A) poems
B) sagas
C) sonnets
D) novels
  • 10. Vikings preferred to be called?
A) Norwegians
B) Norsemen
C) Icelandics
D) Scandinavians
  • 11. What is one reason for Viking exploration and colonization?
A) overcrowding
B) financial trouble
C) war
D) weather
  • 12. Which explorer brought slaves to Europe?
A) Prince Henry
B) Gil Eanes
C) Vasco da Gamma
D) Francis Drake
  • 13. Arabs and Italians controlled trade in what sea?
A) Caribbean
B) Black
C) North
D) Mediterranean
  • 14. Who organized Portugese explorations?
A) Samuel de Champlain
B) Prince Henry
C) Henry Hudson
D) Francis Drake
  • 15. What did King John the Second re-name the Cape of Storms?
A) Cape Seal
B) Cape Africa
C) Cape of Good Hope
D) Cape Dias
  • 16. Which country does Portugal boarder?
A) Denmark
B) Spain
C) France
D) England
  • 17. What country did Eric the Red sail from?
A) Norway
B) France
C) Iceland
D) Mexico
  • 18. What type of ships did Vikings sail?
A) Caravels
B) Canoes
C) Longships
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