3rd Grading

2nd Long Quiz in Social Studies 8a

Name: ____________________________________________________ Score:_________

Grade: 8 Date:__________

I. Multiple choices. Encircle the correct answer

1. Historian refers to this period from 1450 to 1750 as the Age of ____________.
a. Exploration
b. Invention
c. Renaissance

2. _________ was the first European nation to sponsor the voyage of

exploration.
a. Spain
b. Portugal
c. Britain

3. He sent ships to explore the West Africa coast and look for a sea route to
the east. Who is he?
a. King Philip
b. Prince Harry
c. Prince Henry

4. He placed Portugal in position to dominate trade with India. Who is he?

a. Da Gama
b. Diaz
c. Magellan

5. He was a Portuguese explorer who was blown off course during a storm
and landed in Brazil. Who is he?
a. Christopher Columbus
b. Pedro Cabral
c. Juan Ponce De Leon

6. He set foot on a land that he named Florida in 1513. Who is he?

a. Christopher Columbus
b. Pedro Cabral
c. Juan Ponce De Leon

7. He led a Spanish expedition wherein he entered the vast Pacific Ocean to

find a western sea route to Asia in 1519. Who is he?
a. Ferdinand Magellan
b. Juan Ponce De Leon
c. Miguel Lopez De Legazpi

8. His Voyages fueled the rivalry between Spain and Portugal. Who is he?
a. Miguel Lopez De Legazpi
b. Christopher Columbus
c. Juan Ponce De Leon
 9. What do you call the treaty that drew a line of demarcation that ran
north and south about 1,100 miles west of the Azores Islands in the
Atlantic?
a. Treaty of Paris
b. Treaty of Milan
c. Treaty of Tordesillas

10. This company was established in 1602 through a charter granted by

Netherlands.
a. Dutch East India Company
b. Dutch West India Company
c. Dutch South India Company

11. It was founded in 1621, and it soon controlled much of the slave
trade in Atlantic and Caribbean.
a. Dutch East India Company
b. Dutch West India Company
c. Dutch South India Company

II. TRUE or FALSE. Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if it’s
incorrect.
______1. Ferdinand Magellan was tasked to look for the legendary Fountain
of Youth.
______2. School for navigation was established in Portugal.

______3. The Primary wealth of the French settlers in North America was gold
and silver.
______4. The instrument that measures the position of stars was called
compass.
______5. Cape of Good Hope was the tip of the continent of Africa as named
by Bartholomew Diaz.
______6. A device that determines the location of ships at sea is called
astrolabe.
______7. Spain was the first European nation to sponsor voyages of
Exploration.
______8. A demarcation line ran north and south about 1,100 miles west of the
Azores Islands in the Atlantic was drawn for Portugal and Spain.
______9. Canada was the first permanent French colony in North America.

III. Matching Type. Match Column A with Column B. write the letter of the
correct answer in the space before the number.
A.
A. B.
______1. Copernicus a. Heavenly bodies move around the
______2. Robert Hooke sun
______3. Kepler b. Discovered theory of heavenly bodies
______4. Galileo c. Discovered the living cell
______5. Isaac Newton d. Laws of Inertia
e. Study of falling bodies and pendulum
f. Theory of Relativity
B.
A. B.
______6. Thomas Hobbes a. Spirit of Law
______7. Diderot b. “Revolution on the minds of Men”
______8. Voltaire c. Social Contract
______9. Rousseau d. Leviathan
______10. Montesquieu e. Freedom of Expression
f. Man is good by nature