History Unit I

Multiple Choice Paper2012

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1. Which of the following statements MOST 4. According to Van Sertima, ocean currents
accurately characterizes the religious were important in helping West Africans to
practices of the Tainos and Kalinagoes? establish contact with the Americas in the
pre-Columbian era. Which of the following
a. They worshipped in large stone temples currents most likely would not have
b. They had no clearly articulated concept of impacted on this historical occurrence?
God
c. Tobacco smoking or cohiba was part of their a. Guinea Current
religious ritual b. North Equatorial Current
d. They were not religious people c. Benguela Current
d. South Equatorial Current

5. What century did Vikings establish contact

2. Which of the following activities was NOT a with the Americas?
feature of indigenous mainland Amerindian
societies? a. 8th
b. 9th
a. Worship of one God c. 10th
b. Practice of agriculture d. 11th
c. Conquest of other groups
d. Stratification of society 6. The evidence found at L’Anse aux Meadows
indicated

a. The establishment of Viking settlement in

3. The Atlantic World may BEST be defined as Greenland
a geographical area consisting of b. The precise location of Viking settlement at
Vinland
a. Africa, Europe and the Americas c. The permanent settlement of Vinland
b. Territories with an Atlantic coastline d. Viking settlement in North Newfoundland
c. West Africa, Western Europe and the
eastern seaboard of North and South 7. The Iberian peninsula consists of
America
d. Territories involved in trade across a. France and Spain
the Atlantic b. Spain and Holland
c. Portugal and Spain
d. France and Holland
8. Amerindian labour was used MAINLY 13. The Spanish Crown sought to protect the
indigenous population of the Americas
a. In the gold mines through
b. In the production of logwood
c. In the production of grain a. The audiencia
d. In the cultivation and manufacture of sugar b. The SietePartidas
c. The repartimiento
d. The Laws of Burgos
9. Which of the following was NOT a method
of resistance of the Amerindians 14. Which of the following was NOT an effect
that contact with the Europeans had on the
a. Paying tribute relationship between the Tainos and
b. Crop destruction Kalinagoes
c. Suicide
d. Marronage a. Exposure to disease
b. Death from overwork
c. Conflict between the two groups
10. What was the MAIN purpose of the d. Conversion to Christianity
encomienda system established by the
Spaniards in the Americas? 15. What was the MAIN consequence of
Spanish settlement on the indigenous
a. To ensure fair treatment of the Indians population of Hispaniola?
b. To prevent the enslavement of the Indians
c. To provide defence for the Spanish a. Decimation
d. To provide labour for the Spanish b. Displacement
c. Miscegenation
d. Christianization
11. An example of divide and rule used by
Cortes was seen in 16. Chattel slavery can BEST be defined as

a. His capture of indigenous villages a. Forced servitude of persons to their master

b. His formation of alliances with local tribes for a lifetime
c. His gathering volunteers from other Spanish b. The use of Africans as labourers in large
colonies numbers
d. The capture of Emperor Montezuma by c. Acceptance of labour without payment
Cortes
17. The initiation of enslaved Africans took
place during
12. The Columbian Exchange affected the
Europeans in all of the following ways a. The ‘scramble’
EXCEPT b. The Middle Passage
c. The first months on the estates
a. Introducing them to new diseases d. The journey to the coast of Africa
b. Adding new foods to their diet
c. Influencing their religious development
d. Hybridization through sexual encounters
18. Which of the following statements BEST 23. The Haitian Revolution was fought mainly
explains why more women than men because
survived the Middle Passage?
a. The enslaved wanted freedom
a. They had fewer restrictions placed on them b. The rich whites wanted autonomy from
b. They were less likely to rebel France
c. They had a stronger immune system c. The free coloureds wanted equality with
d. They could better withstand the effects of whites
shock, pain and malnutrition d. Poor whites wanted greater respect from rich
whites
19. The enslaved African population in the 24. The French Revolution impacted on the
Caribbean generally did not increase by Haitian Revolution by
natural means because
a. Supplying arms for the enslaved
a. Abortions were prevalent masses
b. Plantation life was rigorous b. Encouraging Toussaint to overthrow
c. There were no nuclear families the landed aristocracy
d. Planters did not encourage reproduction c. Sending the British and Spanish to
fight alongside Toussaint to defeat
the French
20. Some Caribbean planters gave provision d. Providing the ideological basis for
grounds to the enslaved MAINLY to revolution

a. Keep the enslaved occupied 25. Which of the following was not a slave
b. Encourage the development of the internal revolt in the British West Indies?
market system a. Bussa Revolt
c. Reduce planters expenses b. Demerara Revolt
d. Ensure that all plantation land was cultivated c. Nat Turner Rebellion
d. Christmas Rebellion

21. What factors BEST explain why maroon

societies were a threat to the plantocracy? 26. Apart from the British, the earliest abolition
of the Trans-Atlantic Trade in Enslaved
a. for guerilla warfare Africans was implemented by the
b. for stealing food from the planters
c. for developing a new avenue of trade which a. French
will pose competition b. Danish
d. as an avenue for successful escape by other c. Dutch
slaves d. Americans

22. Gender blindness in plantation society 27. Slave revolts contributed to the
occurred MAINLY in dismantlement of slavery by

a. Sugar factories I destroying property

b. Field labour II destroying lives of whites
c. Skilled labour III proving the enslaved were not happy
d. Domestic tasks
a. I only
b. I and II
c. II and III
d. I, II and III
28. According to the preamble to the Act of 32. The origin of the peasantry in the Caribbean
Emancipation, which of the following was can be traced back to
NOT an aim of the British Emancipation Act
of 1833? I runaway slaves
II slave provision grounds
a. Abolition of slavery III the market system
b. Apprenticeship
c. Compensation a. I only
d. Industrialization b. II only
c. I and II
29. The Agency Committee of 1831 d. I, II and III

I was a conservative group that called 33. Dessalines attempted to revive the post-
for gradual abolition of slavery independence economy of Haiti by all of the
II was a radical group that wanted following ways EXCEPT
immediate abolition of slavery
III consisted of younger abolitionists a. introducing forced labour
and humanitarians b. reviving agriculture
c. nationalizing large plots of land
a. I only d. declaring all Haitians to be noirs
b. II only
c. I and II 34. France recognized Haitian independence in
d. I and III
a. 1804
30. Abolitionists abandoned gradual abolition in b. 1815
favour of immediate abolition of slavery c. 1823
because of d. 1825

I the failure of amelioration

II the need to appease the British public 35. Which of the following factors created
III the radicalism of the Agency Committee challenges in the reconstruction of Haiti
after the revolution
a. I and II
b. I and III I Political instability
c. II and III II International isolation
d. I, II and III III Internal conflict

a. I and II only
31. The uninterrupted decline of the British b. I and III only
West Indian sugar plantation was the result c. II and III only
of d. I, II and III

a. The Anglo-Dutch Wars 36. The July Movement 1953-1959 overthrew

b. The Seven Years War
c. The American War of Independence a. Marti
d. The Cuban War of Independence b. Cespedes
c. Machado
d. Batista
37. What is the correct order in which the 41. One of the policies of the Cuban government
following events occurred after the Cuban towards the Caribbean and Latin America
Revolution? during the 1960s and 1970s was to

I US factories refused to refine Soviet oil a. Isolate itself from the rest of the region
II Cuba imported Soviet oil b. Help other Third World Nations to achieve
III The US imposed a complete embargo on ‘liberation’
Cuba c. Replace the US as the principal power in the
region
a. I, II, III d. Treat the needs of the region with
b. I, III, II indifference
c. II, I, III
d. III, I, II

38. During the first two years of the Cuban 42. Which of the following Jamaican political
Revolution, what were the ideologies that leaders was considered a Father of
Fidel Castro implemented? Independence?

a. Socialism and Fascism a. Alan Coombs

b. Communism and Popularism b. William Grant
c. Nationalization and Communalism c. Noel Nethersole
d. Commercialization and Privatization d. Alexander Bustamante

39. By the 1970s the MOST spectacular 43. Which of the following was the MAIN
advances in Cuba were in the areas of reason for the failure of Federation?

a. Sports and culture a. The inability of the various politicians to see

b. Health and education themselves as a regional unit
c. Science and technology b. Britain’s refusal to give its full support
d. Education and industrial development c. Trinidad being chose a the capital
d. Disagreement among the leaders
40. Which of the following factors BEST
accounts for the intervention of the USA in 44. What does Associated Statehood mean?
Grenada in 1983?
a. Britain controlled both internal and foreign
a. Grenada’s alliance with the Soviet Union policies of the colonies
b. The existence of cruise missiles in Grenada b. Colonies controlled internal policy and
c. The construction of a new airport in Grenada Britain controlled foreign policy
d. The quarrel between Tom Adams and c. Britain controlled internal policy and the
Maurice Bishop colonies controlled their foreign policy
d. Colonies controlled both internal and foreign
policy
 45. “The picture is of two Caribbean islands that a. Aruba and Martinique
are fully oriented by France – and content to b. Haiti and the Dominican Republic
be in that position” c. Martinique and Guadeloupe
d. St. Lucia and Martinique
With reference to the quote above, which two
departments were spoken about?