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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By 1619, how many blacks had already been transported from Africa to the Caribbean and South America to work as slaves, according to the author in Chapter 2?
(a) 200,000
(b) 100,000
(c) 1 million
(d) 590

2. When was the Tea Act passed by the British Parliament?
(a) 1776
(b) 1659
(c) 1801
(d) 1773

3. On Columbus’s second voyage for the King and Queen of Spain, he was unable to locate gold so he instead filled his ships with how many slaves?
(a) 200
(b) 500
(c) 50
(d) 150

4. The author states in Chapter 1 that it is said the source of information of Columbus’s conquests on the islands was written down by a young priest named what?
(a) Martín Alonso Pinzón
(b) Jonathan Schell
(c) Bartolome de las Casas
(d) William Berkeley

5. The author states in Chapter 2, “It is roughly estimated that Africa lost” how many “human beings to death and slavery in those centuries we call the beginnings of modern Western civilization”?
(a) 50 million
(b) 6 million
(c) 20 million
(d) 3 million

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men did Columbus leave behind at the Navidad fort?

2. The word “Arawak” comes from “aru” which is the Lucayan word for what?

3. When did Great Britain impose the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper made in London?

4. Where did the Stono Rebellion take place?

5. In Chapter 2, J. Saunders Redding writes about a ship headed for Jamestown that arrived in North America in what year?

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