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Unit 6 Multiple Choice
Contributed by: Gilbert
  • 1. What year did Christopher Columbus set sail?
A) 1492
B) 1345
C) 1555
D) 1942
  • 2. Christopher Columbus set sail with how many ships?
A) 1
B) 16
C) 3
D) 10
  • 3. What were the European Explorers originally searching for?
A) Lanteen sails
B) A sea route to Asia
C) Slaves
D) Free silk
  • 4. How many people lived in the New World?
A) 55,678
B) 126,000
C) 25-100 million
D) 2 million
  • 5. What condition did sailors face due to a lack of vitamin C?
A) Swine flu
B) Scurvy
C) Black death
D) Bird flu
  • 6. During the Middle Ages many Europeans thought the world was:
A) A disk floating on a great ocean
B) Round
C) Continuous
D) Cubic
  • 7. What government system dominated the Middle Ages
A) Monarchy
B) Totalitarianism
C) Oligarchy
D) Democracy
  • 8. What was Christopher Columbus's largest ship?
A) Santa Maria
B) S.S. Minnow
C) S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald
D) Titanic
  • 9. What were the dimensions of a longship?
A) 12' x 12'
B) 170' x 5'
C) 75' x 17'
D) 50' x 10'
  • 10. Who were the Skraelings?
A) Citizens of Greenland
B) The group that settled Vinland
C) Natives the Vikings encountered
D) Viking explorers
  • 11. Where did Leif Erikson first land in the Americas?
A) Hudson Bay
B) Plymouth Rock
C) California
D) Baffin Island
  • 12. Erik the red founded the first European settlement in:
A) Denmark
B) Norway
C) Greenland
D) Germany
  • 13. What year did Leif Erikson first land on the New World?
A) 1496
B) 1222
C) 1111
D) 1001
  • 14. What type of ship did the Portuguese design for long expeditions?
A) Umiak
B) Canoe
C) Longship
D) Caravel
  • 15. Who organized Portuguese explorers?
A) Leif Erikson
B) Christopher Columbus
C) Henry the Navigator
D) Gil Eanes
  • 16. What was the first profitable item that the Portuguese found?
A) Ivory
B) Jade
C) Slaves
D) Gold
  • 17. Who was the first navigator to successfully voyage around the tip of Africa?
A) Prince Henry
B) Vascp de Gama
C) Petro Alvares Cabral
D) Leif Erikson
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