Difficult Questions on SuperQuiz Practice Test

These are the questions that nearly no one answered correctly. Under the question, the correct answer is written in green.


 - Which of the following, according to historian Daniel Hendrick, was the MOST important thing that prevented Europeans from fully exploring Africa before the mid-nineteenth century?

1. Lack of interest.
2. Inadequate maps.
3. Native hostility.
4. Disease. (2 students got it right)
5. Difficult terrain.

- Although John Cabot sailed for England, he was not English. Which city was he from?

1. Amsterdam.
2. Lisbon.
3. Genoa.
4. Venice. (3 students got it right)
5. Granada.

- Which country did the Philippines belong to before being transferred to the United States in 1898?

1. Germany.
2. Japan.
3. France
4. England.
5. Spain. (only 2 students got it right)

- What did the Indian practice of ‘sati’ involve?

1. Widows burning themselves on their husbands’ funeral pyres. (only 1 student got it right)
2. Sacrificing newborn infants to the Indian god Trimurti.
3. Men taking multiple wives, often against their will.
4. An inflexible caste system akin to slavery.
5. Stoning to death those that violated Indian law.

- Which of the following colonial powers of the late nineteenth century unified into a nation-state last?

1. Belgium.
2. Spain.
3. Germany. (no one got it right)
4. The United States.
5. Japan.

- What did the nations that met in the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 officially decide to do with regard to the issue of slavery in Africa?

1. To allow slavery and the slave trade to continue.
2. To abolish the slave trade, but continue slavery.
3. To ban slavery, but allow the slave trade.
4. To ignore the issue of slavery and the slave trade.
5. To abolish both slavery and the slave trade. (only 1 student got it right)

- What was the term ‘Maroon’ in reference to in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?

1. A Dutch colony.
2. A tobacco plantation.
3. A runaway slave. (only 1 student got it right)
4. A gold coin.
5. A Spanish pirate.