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