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) Eric the Red
B) Vasco da Gama
C) Leif Ericson
D) Bartholomew Dias
  • 3. Who controlled trade in India?
A) Arabs
B) China
C) France
D) England
  • 4. Which explorer founded Greenland?
A) Eric the Red
B) Columbus
C) Hernan Cortez
D) Leif Ericson
  • 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) narwhal Ivory
B) elephant Ivory
C) hippopotamus ivory
D) walrus Ivory
  • 7. Which explorer discovered Brazil by accident?
A) John Cabot
B) Henry Hudson
C) Jacques Cartier
D) Pedro Alvares Cabral
  • 8. What did the Vikings called the native people in Vinland?
A) Inuit
B) Indians
C) Canadians
D) Scrailings
  • 9. What are the stories Vikings told and passed down?
A) novels
B) sonnets
C) sagas
D) poems
  • 10. Vikings preferred to be called?
A) Scandinavians
B) Norwegians
C) Icelandics
D) Norsemen
  • 11. What is one reason for Viking exploration and colonization?
A) weather
B) war
C) financial trouble
D) overcrowding
  • 12. Which explorer brought slaves to Europe?
A) Gil Eanes
B) Vasco da Gamma
C) Prince Henry
D) Francis Drake
  • 13. Arabs and Italians controlled trade in what sea?
A) Mediterranean
B) Caribbean
C) Black
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 Dias
B) Cape Seal
C) Cape of Good Hope
D) Cape Africa
  • 16. Which country does Portugal boarder?
A) England
B) Denmark
C) France
D) Spain
  • 17. What country did Eric the Red sail from?
A) Iceland
B) Norway
C) Mexico
D) France
  • 18. What type of ships did Vikings sail?
A) Canoes
B) Caravels
C) Longships
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