Question 1

……………the navigator encouraged navigation by establishing a school for geographers.

Accepted Answer

A)  George Sarton
B)  Amerigo Vespucci
C)  Randolph Starn
D)  Henry D

Question 2

In 1519 ………….discovered Mexico.

Accepted Answer

A)  Hernando Cortez
B)  Robert Fulton
C)  Cabral
D)  Amerigo Vespucci A

Question 3

Balboa crossed the Isthimus of Panama in …………

Accepted Answer

A)  1465
B)  1508
C)  1513
D)  1623 C

Question 4

In 1488, a brave captain named ………….sailed up to Africa's southern most tips which he named the "Cape of Storms".

Accepted Answer

A)  Bartholomew Diaz
B)  Thomas Newcomen
C)  Columbus
D)  Robert Fulton

Question 5

The fall of …………..into the hands of the Ottoman Turks was reason enough for the Europeans to seek alternative routes.

Accepted Answer

A)  Delhi
B)  Peking
C)  Moscow
D)  Constantinople

Question 6

The Polo brothers reach the court of Kublai Khan in China in…………

Accepted Answer

A)  1250
B)  1256
C)  1260
D)  1268

Question 7

After the fall of…………….., the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, into the hands of the fanatical Ottoman Turks, the trade routes lying within the Turkish empire, were closed to European traders.

Accepted Answer

A)  Gerusalem
B)  Constantinople
C)  Delhi
D)  Oxford

Question 8

Vasco da Gama went around the cape and across the Indian Ocean to reach India (Calicut) in ………..

Accepted Answer

A)  1458
B)  1468
C)  1498
D)  1598

Question 9

John of Plano Carpini was sent to the court of the Great Khan in Mongolia in ……………..

Accepted Answer

A)  1145
B)  1245
C)  1257
D)  1269

Question 10

The Portuguese reached China in ………..

Accepted Answer

A)  1510
B)  1512
C)  1517
D)  1534

Question 11

From 1515 to 1547 - The French king Francis I extended his colonies to …………and the Mississipi Valley.

Accepted Answer

A)  New Hampshire
B)  Vermont
C)  Canada
D)  Maine

Question 12

The Polo brothers from Venice were the first Europeans to travel to China and visit the court of……………, about 1260.

Accepted Answer

A)  Kublai Khan
B)  Alfred the Great
C)  Henry VIII
D)  Akbar

Question 13

Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese navigator sailed around the cape up the east coast of Africa, across the Indian Ocean and landed at …………..

Accepted Answer

A)  Cochi
B)  Calicut
C)  Bombay
D)  Cape of Good Hope

Question 14

……….Bartholomeu Dias reaches the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa.

Accepted Answer

A)  1468
B)  1477
C)  1488
D)  1498

Question 15

The ……………aroused a spirit of adventure as well as a great deal of curiosity among the Europeans.

Accepted Answer

A)  French Revolution
B)  Renaissance
C)  American Revolution
D)  Reformation

Question 16

After Prince Henry's death ……………….crossed the Equator in 1472.

Accepted Answer

A)  Lopo Gonsalves
B)  Diego Cao
C)  Columbus
D)  John Cabot

Question 17

In 1499 ………………landed in America.

Accepted Answer

A)  Amerigo Vespucci
B)  Cabral
C)  Robert Fulton
D)  Vasco da Gama

Question 18

Prince Henry, commonly called Henry the navigator, was a great patron of navigation in ………………

Accepted Answer

A)  France
B)  Portugal
C)  Poland
D)  Spain

Question 19

Who questioned the sale of indulgences in 1517 by the agents of Pope X?

Accepted Answer

A)  Jaques Cartier
B)  Martin Luther
C)  Thomas Newcomen
D)  Queen Anne

Question 20

The ………….had fostered a spirit of inquiry that had revolutionized geographical ideas.

Accepted Answer

A)  Reformation
B)  Renaissance
C)  English Revolution
D)  American Revolution

Exam 3: Exploration and Discovery in European History