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