5th Grade History Chapter 2 Quiz Pages 22-35 (Exploration) Question Preview (ID: 48021)


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When did Columbus set foot on an island in the Americas?
a) October 12, 1492
b) August 1492
c) October 1647
d) November 8, 1610

What allows a ship to sail into the wind?
a) quadrant
b) big square sail
c) small triangular sails
d) compass

Which settlement was governed by Peter Stuyvesant and named its capital city New Amsterdam?
a) Quebec
b) San Salvador
c) New France
d) New Netherland

Who eventually declared that Native Americans have souls?
a) Bartolomeu Dias
b) Vasco da Gama
c) Christopher Columbus
d) the pope

Where did Columbus go after sailing along the coast of Africa?
a) to the Canary Islands
b) to the Cape of Good Hope
c) to New Amsterdam
d) to the Indies

Name the person who set foot on an island in the Americas in 1492.
a) Jacques Cartier
b) Christopher Columbus
c) Giovanni da Verrazzano
d) Peter Stuyvesant

Identify the Chinese invention that allowed sailors to know which direction to sail.
a) small triangular sails
b) the quadrant
c) the compass
d) big square sails

What did the quadrant help sailors determine?
a) direction of the wind
b) phases of the moon
c) the angle of the sun
d) time of day

What did Columbus persuade his sailors to do when they became restless?
a) persevere
b) give up
c) write a book
d) draw a map

Who became a monk and wrote about the treatment of the Indians?
a) Peter Stuyvesant
b) Bartolome de Las Casas
c) Bartolomeu Dias
d) Vasco da Gama

What gives a ship power?
a) big square sail
b) small triangular sails
c) compass
d) quadrant

Identify the settlement that made an agreement with the Iroquois and Hurons, established fur trading, and was hindered by cold weather?
a) San Salvador
b) New Netherland
c) the English Colony
d) New France

Who wanted to be the first to sail from Europe to India?
a) Vasco da Gama
b) Christopher Columbus
c) Giovanni da Verrazzano
d) Samuel de Champlain

When did Columbus first sail?
a) October 1492
b) November 1610
c) July 1608
d) August 1492

Who explored the coast of Africa for Portugal?
a) Giovanni da Verrazzano
b) Bartolomeu Dias
c) Samuel de Champlain
d) Christopher Columbus

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