Test Questions & Answers Ch.9 Encounter

Chapter 09

Encounter

1. Which country sent a large fleet across the Indian Ocean at the beginning of the fifteenth century?

A. Portugal

B. China

C. Spain

D. England

Learning Objective: Identify factors and populations engaged in global travel and trade between 1000 and 1600

Topic: global trade and travel

Topic: History

2. To what does the word "caravel" refer?

A. Type of sailing ship

B. Navigational instrument

C. Style of African sculpture

D. Form of Native American totem

3. In 1453, the city of Constantinople was captured by which empire?

A. Roman

B. Persian

C. Ottoman

D. Chinese

Learning Objective: Identify factors and populations engaged in global travel and trade between 1000 and 1600

Topic: History

Topic: Ottoman Empire

4. Which of the following was NOT a major factor in the onset of European expansion?

A. Improved navigational devices

B. Advances in mapmaking

C. Faster, more practical ships

D. Imitation of China's maritime achievements

Learning Objective: Identify factors and populations engaged in global travel and trade between 1000 and 1600

Topic: History

5. Who was the thirteenth-century merchant whose sojourn at the court of Mongol China was recorded in Il Milione?

A. Marco Polo

B. Hernan Cortes

C. Vasco da Gama

D. Bartholomeu Diaz

Learning Objective: Identify factors and populations engaged in global travel and trade between 1000 and 1600

Topic: global trade and travel

Topic: History

6. What religion, important in the development of African culture, is the belief that spirits inhabit all things in nature?

A. Monotheism

B. Theocracy

C. Daoism

D. Animism

Learning Objective: Explain the role of the kinship system in African society

Topic: Africa

Topic: History

7. What characteristic was especially important to the African kinship system?

A. Extended family was more important than the tribe.

B. Each individual is responsbile for the survival of his or her family.

C. The well-being of the group was essential to that of the individual.

D. The communal use of anaphora.

Learning Objective: Explain the role of the kinship system in African society

Topic: Africa

Topic: History

8. Which city was the greatest of the early West African trading centers and the seat of a Muslim university?

A. Tangier

B. Ghana

C. Niger

D. Timbuktu

Learning Objective: Identify factors and populations engaged in global travel and trade between 1000 and 1600

Topic: Africa

Topic: History

9. What does the name "Sudan" mean?

A. African family

B. Desert highlands

C. War chief

D. Land of the blacks

Learning Objective: Identify factors and populations engaged in global travel and trade between 1000 and 1600

Topic: Africa

Topic: History

10. Before the fifteenth-century, the West African elite was most heavily influenced by which religion?

A. Christianity

B. Islam

C. Judaism

D. Hinduism

Learning Objective: Explain the traditional African belief systems

Learning Objective: Understand the impact of the Europeans on African people and culture from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries

Topic: Africa

Topic: History

11. What is the literary landmark and notable epic of ancient Mali?

A. Popol Vuh

B. The oba

C. Sundiata

D. The Night Chant

Learning Objective: Analyze the values expressed in African myths and poetry

Topic: Africa

Topic: Literature

12. What is the dominant element in African music?

A. Rhythm

B. Harmony

C. Melody

D. Dissonance

Learning Objective: Describe the characteristics of African music and dance

Topic: Africa

Topic: Music and Dance

13. What was the earliest West African kingdom?

A. Ghana

B. Zimbabwe

C. Timbuktu

D. Mali

Learning Objective: Identify factors and populations engaged in global travel and trade between 1000 and 1600

Topic: Africa

Topic: History

14. When the Europeans arrived in Africa, how did the slave trade function?

A. slavery did not exist as a trade.

B. slaves were already being traded between African and Muslim dealers.

C. slavery was considered offensive to the gods.

D. slaves were brought into Africa from other parts of the world.

Learning Objective: Identify factors and populations engaged in global travel and trade between 1000 and 1600

Topic: Africa

Topic: History

15. In African cultural history, what was the function of the griot?

A. Poet-historian

B. Tribal-priest

C. King

D. Trader

Learning Objective: Analyze the values expressed in African myths and poetry

Learning Objective: Describe the characteristics of African music and dance

Topic: History

Topic: Literature

Topic: Music and Dance

16. What does the bronze head of the oba of Benin demonstrate about African sculpture?

A. African mastery of casting metal

B. Classical ideals

C. Hierarchical depiction of social class

D. Detailed realism

Learning Objective: Understand basic facts about African sculpture of the first millennium B.C.E.

Topic: Africa

Topic: Art and Architecture

17. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of African music?

A. Use of percussion instruments

B. Polyrhythmic structure

C. Call-and-response motifs

D. Polyphonic textures

Learning Objective: Describe the characteristics of African music and dance

Topic: Africa

Topic: Music and Dance

18. What does the word "pueblo" mean?

A. Savage

B. Town

C. Ruler

D. Ritual

Learning Objective: Understand the diversity among the peoples of the Americas

Topic: History

Topic: The Americas

19. What does the word "kiva" refer to? 

A. Native American gold-working process

B. Mali mask

C. Pueblo ceremonial site

D. Navaho mythic hero

Learning Objective: Understand the diversity among the peoples of the Americas

Topic: History

Topic: The Americas

20. Who were the only indigenous people of the Americas known to have produced a written language?

A. Maya

B. Incas

C. Aztecs

D. Hopi

Learning Objective: Describe elements of Maya civilization

Topic: History

Topic: The Americas

21. Which was the earliest of the Meso-American societies?

A. Maya

B. Inca

C. Olmec

D. Anasazi

Learning Objective: Understand the diversity among the peoples of the Americas

Topic: History

Topic: The Americas

22. Which of the following was characteristic of the religious rituals of the Maya and Aztecs?

A. Human sacrifice

B. Worship of the moon

C. Underground ceremonial centers

D. All these answers are correct

Learning Objective: Describe elements of Maya civilization

Learning Objective: Know who the Aztecs were

Topic: History

Topic: Philosophy and Religion

Topic: The Americas

23. The Spanish troops led by Cortes were most critical of Aztec

A. economic traditions.

B. engineering techniques.

C. religious practices.

D. kinship systems.

Learning Objective: Know who the Aztecs were

Learning Objective: Understand the aftermath of the Spanish conquest in the Americas

Topic: History

Topic: The Americas

24. What are the primary landmarks of European expansion, exploration, and cross-cultural contact?

Learning Objective: Identify factors and populations engaged in global travel and trade between 1000 and 1600

Topic: global trade and travel

25. Discuss the landmark contributions of Africa, focusing on those you believe to be the most original, influential, or long lasting.

Learning Objective: Analyze the values expressed in African myths and poetry

Learning Objective: Describe the characteristics of African music and dance

Learning Objective: Explain the role of the African mask

Learning Objective: Explain the role of the kinship system in African society

Learning Objective: Explain the traditional African belief systems

Learning Objective: Understand basic facts about African sculpture of the first millennium B.C.E.

Learning Objective: Understand the impact of the Europeans on African people and culture from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries

Topic: Africa

Topic: Art and Architecture

Topic: History

Topic: Literature

Topic: Music and Dance

26. Describe the landmarks in the arts of the pre-Columbian peoples. Which of these were tolerated (or admired) by the Spanish colonizers, and which were deliberately destroyed?

Learning Objective: Describe elements of Maya civilization

Learning Objective: Know who the Aztecs were

Learning Objective: Name accomplishments of the Inka civilization

Learning Objective: Recognize the melodic and harmonic texture of Navajo tribal music

Learning Objective: Understand the aftermath of the Spanish conquest in the Americas

Learning Objective: Understand the diversity among the peoples of the Americas

Learning Objective: Understand the diversity of artistic objects created by the native peoples of the American Northwest

Topic: Art and Architecture

Topic: History

Topic: Literature

Topic: Music and Dance

Topic: The Americas

Category # of Questions

Learning Objective: Analyze the values expressed in African myths and poetry 3

Learning Objective: Describe elements of Maya civilization 3

Learning Objective: Describe the characteristics of African music and dance 4

Learning Objective: Explain the role of the African mask 1

Learning Objective: Explain the role of the kinship system in African society 3

Learning Objective: Explain the traditional African belief systems 2

Learning Objective: Identify factors and populations engaged in global travel and trade between 1000 and
1600 9

Learning Objective: Know who the Aztecs were 3

Learning Objective: Name accomplishments of the Inka civilization 1

Learning Objective: Recognize the melodic and harmonic texture of Navajo tribal music 1

Learning Objective: Understand basic facts about African sculpture of the first millennium B.C.E. 2

Learning Objective: Understand the aftermath of the Spanish conquest in the Americas 2

Learning Objective: Understand the diversity among the peoples of the Americas 4

Learning Objective: Understand the diversity of artistic objects created by the native peoples of the
American Northwest 1

Learning Objective: Understand the impact of the Europeans on African people and culture from the
fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries 2

Topic: Africa 12

Topic: Art and Architecture 3

Topic: global trade and travel 3

Topic: History 20

Topic: Literature 4

Topic: Music and Dance 5

Topic: Ottoman Empire 1

Topic: Philosophy and Religion 1

Topic: The Americas 7