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