1) The Windward Islands consist of all the following territories EXCEPT

A) Dominica
B) St Lucia
C) Guadeloupe
D) Martinique

2) The Greater Antilles in the Caribbean consists of the following territories EXCEPT
A) Cuba
B) Jamaica
C) Haiti
D) Grenada

3) Consider the following statement and comment on it as being either true or false:
"History that is studied at the University level can be defined as the study of
all human activity that has ever happened in the past."
A) True
B) False

4) Traditional systems of slavery in Africa prior to 1650 differed to Caribbean chattel

slavery in which ONE of the following ways?
A) There was no flogging of enslaved people
B) There was no racism as the basis of its institution
C) Slaves had equal social status to freedmen
D) All slaves had rights

5) The study of Caribbean Civilisation clearly shows that the Caribbean was
populated and it can therefore could be considered as "civilised" with the advent of
which earliest group of people:
A) Caribs
B) Spanish
C) French
D) NeoIndians

6) On which continent did modern human beings emerge?

A) Asia
B) Africa
C) Europe
D) China

7) The voyages of Christopher Columbus into the Caribbean was facilitated by the
important occurrence of the Reconquest which occurred in what year?
A) 1490
 B) 1491
C) 1492
D) 1493

8) Because of the wealth to be gained from ownership of the Caribbean territories,

the European countries fought over the islands throughout the sixteenth century.
The warfare caused historians to refer to the Caribbean during this period as the
A) Cockpit of Europe
B) Battleground of Europe
C) European warzone
D) Caribbean warzone

9) The Treaty of Tordesillas was signed to ensure peace between the early European
nations who felt they had the main share of the Caribbean in the early years of
"discovery". The two nations were
A) Spain and France
B) France and Portugal
C) Portugal and Spain
D) France and Britain

10)The system of enslavement by which the native people were exploited in the
Spanish search for gold in the Caribbean was called:
A) Encomienda
B) Chattel Slavery
C) Indenture
D) Genocide

11) The destruction of the neoindian people in the fifteenth century came about
because the neoindian people were uncivilised people who were confronted by the
power of a civilised group.
A) True
B) False

12) The research done into Caribbean Civilisation is greatly aided by the recovery of
sources which have emerged from the rubbish dumps of the NeoIndian people.
What is the name given to these important rubbish dumps?
A) Connucos
B) Middens
C) Trash pits
D) Trash mounds

13) Which of the following groups of people were cannibals?

A) Caribs
B) Europeans
C) Arawaks
D) None of the above
14) White indentured servants had very little rights and were subject to a
number of restrictions. They had no right to free marriage or child bearing
and the landowners could even whip their indentured servants or even
commit them to death.

The description given above referenced the white indentured servants brought in
to labour on the early Caribbean plantations and who were originally taken from all
of the following countries EXCEPT
A) England
B) Spain
C) Ireland
D) Wales

15) During Caribbean Chattel slavery enslaved females performed skilled tasks on
the estate which included all of the following EXCEPT
A) Sewing
B) Cooking
C) Huckstering
D) Fishing

16) A typical sugar plantation in the Eighteenth century Caribbean was divided up into
how many work sections/areas?
A) Three
B) Four
C) Five
D) Six

17) The Penns on an Eighteenth century Caribbean sugar estate were responsible
for what activity?
A) Refining and clarifying the cane juice to enable sugar extraction
B) A recovery area for sick enslaved people
C) A growth area for the estate's animals
D) The location of the Estate's written records and accounts

18) The first large scale importation of labour into the Caribbean came from
A) Europe
B) Africa
C) India
D) England

19) Historical relics that were created by the subject being studied by the historian is
generally referred to as
A) Secondary source
B) Evidence
C) Primary source
 D) Bones

20) Historical information is categorised as being one of how many different types of
sources?
A) Two
B) Three
C) Four
D) Five

21) Researchers of past civilisations are able to assess the importance/relevance of

the historical artefacts through their use of what methodology?
A) Diasporic Double Consciousness
B) Internal /External Criticism
C) Anthropology
D) Excavations

22) Consider the following statement and comment on it as being either true or false:

"History that is studied at the University level can be defined as the study of
all human activity that has ever happened in the past."
A) True
B) False

23) The earliest people of the Caribbean were destroyed through a number of
methods. One such method was 'miscegenation' which involved
A) The hunting down of the native people with dogs
B) The overwork of the native people in the mineral mines and fields
C) The mixing of the races through "inter-breeding"
D) The poisoning of food and water resources by the Spaniards

24) Caribbean NeoIndian Society was composed largely of two group of people: The
Caribs and the Arawaks
A) ( True / False )

25) The maritime nations whose civilisations impacted the Caribbean in the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries were all of the following EXCEPT
A) German
B) Spanish
C) Dutch
D) French

26) The theory that underlay the search for wealth in the early Caribbean and which
motivated the earliest interlopers was known as
A) Commerce
B) Profit
C) Bullionism
 D) Mercantalism

27) The most important value of the Caribbean to the earliest European explorers
came from the belief that its location offered
A) Strategic military bases
B) Souls for conversion
C) Trading partners
D) Sources of wealth

28) Manumission when granted to an enslaved person during the period of Caribbean
chattel slavery, made that person legally free for the rest of their life.
A) True
B) False

29) During Caribbean chattel slavery the enslaved men, because of their better
opportunities for earning money, were able to display a higher manumission rate
than their female counterparts
A) (True
B) False

30) During Caribbean chattel slavery many white planters fathered children on the
estates with enslaved women. The legal status of these children was primarily
determined by which of the following issues?
A) The status of the mother
B) The status of the father
C) The economic position of the estate
D) The Assembly Laws that governed the particular island

31)Gender mattered on Caribbean sugar estates. Even though both men and women
were enslaved on the sugar estates, gender differences were still respected as the
basis for assigning work duties. In this context women were usually assigned to the
'Great House' and the men were usually assigned to the 'fields'.
A) (True
B) False

32)During the period of Caribbean chattel slavery the work requirements on the estate
were serviced by a maximum of how many gangs of labour?
A) One
B) Two
C) Three
D) Four

33)The period of Indian Indentureship offered opportunities for social advancement

for many of the earliest immigrants.
A) True
B) False
34) The limiting terms of the Indian indentured contract was instituted by the Colonial
Office primarily for the following reason
A) To prevent indentures from leaving the plantation
B) To afford protection to the Indentures
C) To ensure that indentures worked hard on the plantation
D) To afford time for the creation of a family life

35) The initial Indian Indenturship contracts stipulated a period of how many years?
A) three
B) four
C) five
D) six

36) The East Indian immigration scheme lasted until what year?
A) 1834
B) 1838
C) 1917
D) 1924

37) Caribbean identity is never fixed but it is constantly evolving within our societies.
However the most basic tenet upon which Caribbean identity is based is summed
up under the following criteria
A) Education
B) Race
C) Politics
D) Sex

38) The term "Diaspora" is used in Caribbean Civilisation to refer to what

phenomena?
A) Caribbean people living as one group within the Caribbean
B) The spread of people from the Caribbean to the United States
C) The dispersal of people from their homeland to other centres
D) The act of fleeing the Caribbean to set up home in a country outside the
Caribbean

39) Which prominent Caribbean intellectual is well known for writing a text detailing
the economic reasons for the coming of emancipation in the British Caribbean?
A) C.L.R. James
B) W.E.B. Dubois
C) Hillary Beckles
D) Eric Williams

40) As early as 1806 experiments in the use of free labour were being conducted in
the British Caribbean utilising which group of labourers?
A) Indentured Chinese
 B) Freed Africans
C) Indentured Indian
D) Indentured Portuguese

41) To which Caribbean colony did the majority of Indian indentured labour migrate?
A) Trinidad
B) Jamaica
C) St Lucia
D) British Guiana

42) During the period of Indian Indenture what constituted the primary form of
discipline and control on the plantation?
A) The whip
B) The treadmill
C) The jail
D) Torture

43) Which one of these events constituted the first major upsurge of Caribbean
identity?
A) The Sugar Revolution
B) The Haitian Revolution
C) African emancipation
D) The end of indenture

44) Which philosopher, historian and writer coined the phrase Diasporic Double
Consciousness?
A) CLR James
B) WEB DuBois
C) Dr Eric Williams
D) Toussaint l'Ouverture

45) Which imperialist power was most directly responsible for the impoverishment of
Haiti?
A) Britain
B) France
C) Spain
D) The United States

46) America frustrated Cuban attempts at real independence at the end of the
nineteenth century via the use of which instrument?
A) The Platt Amendment
B) Manifest Destiny
C) The Monroe Doctrine
D) The Roosevelt Corollary

47) The Panama Canal was fashioned by the US out of territory once 'owned' by
 which South American imperial power?
A) Venezuela
B) Brazil
C) Columbia
D) Guyana

48) Identify the name of the process by which a culture is transferred from one
generation to another.
A) Acculturation
B) Enculturation
C) Civilisation
D) Creolisation

49) In the study of civilisations which of these does not help to account for the major
differences among human beings?
A) Biology
B) Ethnicity
C) Culture
D) Values

50) Which West Indian writer remains well known for his book Beyond a Boundary
which detailed the impact of cricket on the Caribbean psyche?
A) Derick Walcott
B) V.S. Naipaul
C) C.L.R. James
D) Everton Weekes

51) Which of these churches most directly engaged the culture of enslaved Africans
throughout the Caribbean territories in the nineteenth century?
A) Baptist
B) Catholic
C) Anglican
D) Lutheran

52) Which of the following best describes Caribbean society, historically, where
gender issues are concerned?
A) Matriarchal
B) Patriarchal
C) Equitable
D) Matrifocal

53) Which methodology do professional historians utilise to assess the validity of their
sources?
A) Objectivity
B) Historiography
C) Criticism
 D) Oral Interviews

54) On which continent did modern human beings emerge?

A) Asia B)
Africa C)
Europe D)
China

55) Which term is used to denote a civilisation's development of agricultural skills?

A) Industrial Revolution
B) Hunting and Gathering
C) Neolithic Revolution
D) Early farming

56) Along with Spain this nation was at the vanguard of Europe's so-called 'Age of
Discovery' during the late fifteenth century
A) Portugal
B) France
C) England
D) Holland

57) This Western European economic philosophy, central to Columbus' thrust to

acquire wealth argued that the more gold a nation possessed the richer it would
be.
A) Mercantalism
B) Capitalism
C) Bartering
D) Bullionism

58) What was the name of the rebirth in learning which facilitated the improvements
necessary for Western Europeans to arrive in the Caribbean during the late
fifteenth century?
A) The Reformation
B) The Rennaisance
C) The Industrial Revolution
D) The Neolithic Revolution

59) The term "Soca Warriors" is a Caribbean term referencing which group?
A) Machel Montano's band (Xtatic)
B) Trinidadian footballers
C) Vincentian soldiers
D) The Barbadian Parliament

60) The "middle passage" is a term used in Caribbean Civilisation to refer to which of
the following?
A) The land that separated the Great House from the fields and which the
enslaved used to gain access to the fields
B) The period of time that the white slave-masters spent on board ship on their
journey down from England
C) The period of time that the enslaved spent in transit between Africa and the
New World
D) The central access road that the sugar cane was transported along to the
factory from the fields for its refining into sugar