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1. The Arawaks wore zemis MAINLY to: C] He was usually the son of the
A] distinguish themselves from the Caribs former Ouboutu.
B] indicate their rank in the army D] He was a priest of the group.
C] improve their personal appearance
D] protect themselves from evil spirits 6. The main role of the Ppolms in Maya society was
that they
2. Evidence of polytheism among pre-Columbian A] were the skilled artisans;
Amerindians is provided by B] traded between Maya cities by traveling
A] the social structure of the Arawaks and overland;
Caribs; C] formed a large pool of agricultural labour
B] the militaristic nature of the Caribs society; D] provided soldiers for the Maya armies.
C] Maya religious practices;
D] the technical skill of the Maya civilisation. 7. Fifteenth century exploration of the West African
Coast was carried out by
3. Which of the following statements is true of A] Spain and resulted in the discovery of the
BOTH Jamaica AND Cuba at the time of Americas ;
Columbus’ arrival in the Caribbean? B] England and resulted in rivalry with Spain;
A] They were inhabited by Arawaks. C] Portugal and resulted in the discovery of a
B] They were inhabited by Caribs. sea route to the East;
C] They were inhabited by the Mayas. D] Holland and resulted in the establishment
D] They were not inhabited. of the slave trade.

4. Which of the following BEST describes the 8. Christopher Columbus sailed west MAINLY to :
religious practices of the Caribs and Arawaks? A] discover the Americas
A] Nature worship and animal sacrifice. B] find a passage to the East
B] Nature worship and ancestor C] compete with the English
worship. D] prove that the world was round
C] Protective magic and animal
sacrifice. 9. The Europeans who introduced ranching in the
D] Long periods of fasting and ancestor Caribbean by 1500 were the
worship. A] English
B] Spanish
5. Which of the following statements is NOT true of C] Portuguese
the Ouboutu? D] Dutch
A] His selection was based on his military skill.
B] He was the group leader in war.
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10. After 1650 the Dutch traders were forbidden to
A] it was the only sweetener available to
trade with the English and French colonies
consumers
MAINLY because the
B] there was competition from Cuban
A] Dutch refused to establish their own
tobacco
settlements in the Caribbean
C] the planters made large profits from it
B] Dutch were benefiting the most
D] the planters acquired the skill from
from the wealth of the colonies
producing it.
C] Dutch traders refused to pay taxes
to the Dutch government
14. Which of the following refers to the
D] Dutch government declared war against
contract given to Europeans to supply
France and England
slaves to the Spanish colonies?
A] Asiento]
11. Which of the following BEST explains why the
B] Encomienda
laws of Burgos were passed by Spain in 1512?
C] Siete Partidas
A] To establish Spanish claim to land in the
D] Code Noir
New World.
B] To regulate the way in which the
15. Which of the following did NOT occur in
Spaniards should treat the Amerindians.
West Africa as a result of the slave trade?
C] To regulate trade between Spanish
A] Increase in warfare among West African
colonists and Spain.
Societies.
D] To control trade between Spanish colonists
B] Reduction of the West African
and other Europeans.
population.
C] Uniting of West Africans under European
12. For which of the following reasons were the
rule.
Navigation Acts passed?
D] Increased importation of European
I. To destroy Dutch trade with the English
goods.
colonies
II. To create free trade in the Caribbean
16. Which of the following was NOT a port of
III. To increase the profits of trade for the British
call in the Triangular Trade?
IV. To increase British shipping and shipbuilding.
A] Bombay
A] I and II only
B] Bristol
B] III and IV only
C] Bridgetown
C] I, III and IV only
D] Cape Coast
D] II, III and IV only

17. Which of the following is the correct order

13. Sugar became the chief export crop of the
in terms of the size of the social groups in
English Caribbean in the seventeenth century
the slave society, from largest to smallest?
MAINLY because
A] Slaves, free blacks and coloureds,
whites.
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B] Free blacks and coloureds, slaves,
C] They could farm and get licenses to sell
whites.
their produce in the market.
C] Whites, free blacks and coloureds,
D] They could accept any runaway slaves
slaves.
as members of their community.
D] White, slaves, free blacks and coloureds.
18. Which of the following countries did NOT fight
22. A major cause of the Bussa Revolt of 1816 in
against the blacks during the Haitian
Barbados was the
Revolution?
A] Belief that emancipation was being
A] Britain
delayed.
B] France
B] Shortage of provisions for the slaves
C] Spain
C] Influence of Sam Sharpe’s revolt in
D] Holland
Jamaica
D] Activity of free blacks and coloureds,
19. The free coloureds of St. Domingue
which incited rebellions
revolted in 1790 because they
A] wished to assist the slaves
23. British Caribbean planters opposed the
B] were dissatisfied with their position in
passing of the Abolition Act MAINLY
society
because they thought that
C] wanted to prevent the slaves from
A] they would lose their sugar market
revolting
B] there would be violence on the estates
D] supported the king of France.
C] they would be unable to provide the
necessary social services
20. The Demerara Revolt of 1823 was related to
D] they would lose their labour force
the
A] dispatch of amelioration proposals to the
24. Which of the following was the outcome of
British colonies
the Mansfield Judgment of 1772?
B] act abolishing the slave trade
A] The British slave trade was made illegal.
C] establishment of the system of
B] Slaves were not allowed to enter Britain.
apprenticeship in Demerara
C] Slavery was abolished in the British
D] act abolishing the system of slavery.
Caribbean.
D] Slavery was made illegal in England.
21. Which of the following was NOT included in the
1739 peace treaty between the Maroons of
25. Which of the following groups was the first
Trelawny, Jamaica and the British?
to publicly condemn slavery?
A] They would help the British fight off any
A] Anglicans
invading foreign enemy.
B] Baptists
B] They were free to occupy an area set for
C] Methodists
themselves
D] Quakers
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26. Which of the following were among the
I. Accommodation on the estates
terms of the Abolition Act of 1833?
II. Payment for labour
I. Ex-slaves were to work on the
III. Free medical care
estates for 45 hours per week.
A] I and II only
II. Field slaves were to serve as
B] I and III only
apprentices for six years.
C] II and III only
III. Ex-slaves were to be educated.
D] I, II and III
A] I and II only
B] I and III only
C] II and III only
D] I, II and III

27. Which of the following BEST explains why

Antigua decided to grant its slaves
emancipation without a period of
apprenticeship?
A] The planters were afraid that the slaves
might revolt if they were not granted
immediate freedom.
B] The Colonial Office felt that
apprenticeship would not work in Antigua.
C] The planters felt that with
apprenticeship they would lose more than
they would gain financially.
D] The planters in Antigua could afford to
pay good wages to keep the ex-slaves on
the estates.

28. Which of the following territories did NOT

receive indentured immigrants directly
from India after 1838?
A] Barbados
B] Guyana
C] Jamaica
D] St. Vincent

29. Which of the following were conditions of

Indian immigrant employment on sugar
estates up to 1917?
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III. Squatting on land in the
30. Some Africans were unwilling to come to the
interior
British Caribbean as contract labourers after
IV. Going to work for the
1838 MAINLY because
missionaries
A] missionaries persuaded them not to
come
A] I and II only
B] they preferred to go to the United
B] II and III only
States
C] II and IV only
C] they were required to pay their own
D] I, II, III and IV
passages
D] slavery had not yet been abolished in
34. Which of the following crops was NOT grown
those territories
for export by British Caribbean peasants in
the second half of the nineteenth century?
31. Which of the following NOT a result of
A] Sugar beet
Chinese immigration to the Caribbean during
B] Arrowroot
the nineteenth century?
C] Ginger
A] The introduction of Islam
D] Pimento]
B] The development of retail trade
C] The formation of Chinese Associations
35. Which of the following was the MAIN reason
D] The introduction of indentured
why planters in the Windward Islands
labourers
adopted the metayage system after 1846?
A] The ex-slaves were better farmers than
32. Which of the following was NOT a result
the planters.
of the introduction of immigrant labour to
B] There was no Crown land for ex-slaves to
the British Caribbean after emancipation?
occupy
A] Additional conflicts between racial
C] The planters were assured of labour for
groups
the plantation.
B] Emigration of ex-slaves to Brazil
D] The ex-slaves refused to accept contracts
C] Increased sugar production
for work on plantations.
D] Cultural diversity in the colonies

36. Which of the following were related to the

33. Which of the following activities help the
development of the peasantry in the British
ex-slaves of Guyana to become
Caribbean after emancipation?
completely or partly independent of the
I. Introduction of new crops.
estates?
II. Greater economic
I. Going to work in Trinidad
independence for ex-slaves.
II. Forming cooperatives which
III. Representation for ex-slaves in
bought plantations
the colonies’ assemblies
A] I and II only
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B] I and III only
C] improve social and economic
C] II and III only
conditions
D] I, II and III
D] introduce freedom and democracy

37. Which of the following was NOT a source

41. ‘Operation Bootstrap’ was a policy
from which ex-slaves on the British
designed to
Caribbean obtained money to buy land
A] introduce United States reforms in
immediately after emancipation?
Haiti
A] Loans from non-conformists
B] allow the United States to increase its
missionaries
investment in Cuba
B] Proceeds from the sale of their
C] stimulate the industrial development
provisions
in Puerto Rico
C] Loans from the British Government
D] establish more United States naval
D] They pooling together of their savings.
bases in the Caribbean.

38. Which of the following Caribbean

42. Which of the following was the MAIN aim of
territories was NOT occupied by United
the Monroe Doctrine of 1823?
States military forces in the early
A] The United States would uphold the
twentieth century?
independence of the Caribbean territories.
A] Jamaica
B] All slaves in Cuba would be free.
B] Haiti
C] The United States would oppose European
C] Cuba
intervention in the New World.
D] Dominican Republic
D] Puerto Rico would be protected by the
39. By the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, the United
United States.
States and Britain agreed
A] to give France permission to build the
43. Which of the following statements are true of
Panama Canal
education for MOST Caribbean blacks in the
B] to share the construction cost of the
early twentieth century?
Panama Canal
I. Opportunities for education were limited
C] not to occupy any country in Central
because they were poor.
America
II. Very few blacks were allowed
D] not to allow any Central American
admission to the best schools.
country to gain independence.
III. Their education followed the
pattern of the British system
40. The United States used the provisions of
A] I and II only
the Platt Amendments to enter Cuba to
B] I and III only
A] interfere in its political
C] II and III only
B] wipe out communism
D] I, II and III
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44. Which of the following were results of the
D] I, II, III and IV
riots of the 1930s?
I. Improved health care
47. The person associated with the outbreak
II. Growth of trade unions
of the 1937 disturbances in the Trinidad
III. Setting up of a regional
oilfields was
defense force
A] Uriah Butler
IV. Improved educational facilities
B] Grantley Adams
C] Alexander Bustamante
A] I and IV only
D] Clement Payne
B] I, III and IV only
C] I, II and IV only
48. Between the First and Second World
D] I, III and IV only
Wars, the strongest critics of Crown
Colony Government were to be found
45. Which of the following was the MAIN
among
purpose of the Moyne Commission of
A] officials at the Colonial Office
1939?
B] members of the elite class
A] To bring to an end the disturbances in
C] governors in the British Caribbean
the colonies
D] nationalists in the British Caribbean
B] To seek out the troublemakers and
recommend punishment
49. By the referendum of 1961, Jamaica
C] To investigate the cause of the
decided to
disturbances and make recommendations
A] withdraw from the federation
D] To review the conduct of the army and
B] change the federal capital
police
C] change its federal representative
D] reduce its financial contribution to the
46. Which of the following did the Moyne
federation
Commission recommend?
I. The setting up of special work-
50. The headquarters of the Federal
men’s compensation schemes
Government of the West Indies (1958-
II. Land settlement for small
1962) was located in
holders
A] Barbados
III. Revised curriculum in primary
B] Guyana
schools
C] Grenada
IV. Improved urban and rural
D] Trinidad
housing

51. The Caribbean person who spoke out

A] I and IV only
MOST in support of federation in the
B] II and III only
1920s was
C] I, II and III only
A] A. Gomes
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B] E. F. L. Wood
55. In what order did the following events
C] T. A. Marryshow
take place in the British Caribbean?
D] Captain A. Cipriani
I. Abolition of slavery
II. Abolition of the slave trade
52. In which of the following systems of
III. Passing of the Sugar Duties Act.
government in the British Caribbean did
IV. Termination of Apprenticeship
the Governor had MOST power?
A] I, II, III, IV
A] Crown Colony
B] II, IV, III, I
B] Representative
C] II, I, IV, III
C] Self-government
D] III, IV, II, I
D] Full independence

56. The policy of improving the conditions

53. Most of the workers who migrated from
under which slaves in the British colonies
the British Caribbean to Central America
lived and worked was known as
in the 1870s were seeking employment
A] emancipation
as
B] apprenticeship
A] miners of gold and silver
C] abolition
B] labourers in railway construction
D] amelioration
C] small-scale traders and merchants
D] skilled workers and craftsmen.
57. Which of the following BEST describes
Universal Adult Suffrage?
54. Which of the following European nations
A] The rights of all citizens of a specified
did NOT possess colonies in the
age to vote.
Caribbean?
B] The rights of educated people to
A] Holland
govern a country
B] France
C] The right of people with a given
C] Portugal
amount of property to run for elections
D] Spain
D] The right of black and non-black to
share political power.

D] III, II, I
58. In what order did the following events
occur? 59. In what order did the following steps
I. War of American Independence leading to emancipation in the British
II. Cuban Revolution Caribbean occur?
III. Haitian Revolution I. Wilberforce began a parliamentary
A] I, II, III campaign against the slave trade.
B] I, III, II II. Mansfield’s judgment made slavery
C] III, I, II illegal in England.
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III. The slave trade was abolished.
A] I, II, III
B] I, III, II
C] II, III, I
D] II, I, III

60. In which century were the planters at the

height of their prosperity in MOST of the
British Caribbean?
A] 1600s
B] 1700s
C] 1800s
D] 1900s

61. Which of the following systems was

NEVER used in the Caribbean under
British rule?
A] Encomienda
B] Plantation
C] Peasantry
D] Metayage

62. Which of the following territories is

INCORRECTLY matched with a ‘new’
industry which developed there in the
late nineteenth century?
A] Trinidad – oil
B] Guyana – rice
C] Belize – bauxite
D] Jamaica - banana
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