Unit 4 Formative 1
  • 1. What was the purpose of Portuguese exploration?
A) trees for new ships
B) new trade routes
C) rescue sailers at sea
D) find gold
  • 2. Which explorer was the first to sail around Africa?
A) Eric the Red
B) Bartholomew Dias
C) Leif Ericson
D) Vasco da Gama
  • 3. Who controlled trade in India?
A) France
B) England
C) China
D) Arabs
  • 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) lions
B) sea monsters
C) eels
D) sharks
  • 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) Henry Hudson
B) Jacques Cartier
C) John Cabot
D) Pedro Alvares Cabral
  • 8. What did the Vikings called the native people in Vinland?
A) Inuit
B) Canadians
C) Scrailings
D) Indians
  • 9. What are the stories Vikings told and passed down?
A) sagas
B) sonnets
C) novels
D) poems
  • 10. Vikings preferred to be called?
A) Norsemen
B) Scandinavians
C) Icelandics
D) Norwegians
  • 11. What is one reason for Viking exploration and colonization?
A) financial trouble
B) weather
C) overcrowding
D) war
  • 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) Mediterranean
B) North
C) Black
D) Caribbean
  • 14. Who organized Portugese explorations?
A) Henry Hudson
B) Samuel de Champlain
C) Francis Drake
D) Prince Henry
  • 15. What did King John the Second re-name the Cape of Storms?
A) Cape Dias
B) Cape Africa
C) Cape Seal
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) Iceland
B) France
C) Mexico
D) Norway
  • 18. What type of ships did Vikings sail?
A) Caravels
B) Longships
C) Canoes
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