Multiple Choice Past Papers Revision Exercise.

Which of the following countries is located outside the Caribbean Sea?

• Jamaica

• Grenada

• St. Vincent and the Grenadines

• Barbados

Which of the following cultural methods, used as resistance to slavery, had the greatest effect?

• Poetry

• Songs

• Syncretic religion

• African healing traditions

Under slavery, Caribbean society was characterized by

• rigid separation of classes

• social mobility

• equality among all people

• the rise of middle -class groups

Which of the following indigenous groups did NOT settle in the pre-Columbian Caribbean?

• Incas

• Mayas

• Tainos

• Kalinagos

Garveyism which occurred in the twentieth century is an example of cultural

• norming

• retention

• retention

• renewal

Which of the following countries is NOT a part of the Greater Antilles?

• Jamaica

• The Bahamas

• Hispaniola

• Puerto Rico

One MOST significant achievement of adult suffrage in Caribbean societies in the mid-twentieth century was

• decolonization

• democratic reform

• political enfranchisement

• government reform

The term 'manumission' is used to describe

• slaves who ran away, especially in Jamaica

• a slave purchasing his or her freedom from the master

• the process of improving conditions for slaves

• the process of getting new African slaves accustomed to slavery

Which of the following festivals is celebrated in Toronto?

• Caribana

• Reggae Sunfest

• Labour Day Parade

• Notting Hill Carnival

Caribbean families in which the mother is the centre of the household are referred to as

• matriarchal

• patriarchal

• matrifocal

• patrimonial