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