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