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Test Your Virginia Knowledge!

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which native Virginia woman married John Rolfe and traveled to England to be presented to King James I and the Bishop?

a)

Queen Aliquippa

b)

Weetamoo

c)

Pocahontas

d)

Cockacoeske

2.

This “Father of our Country” was the only Founding Father to free his slaves in his will.

a)

James Madison

b)

George Washington

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

James Monroe

3.

Where was the first official English Thanksgiving in the New World hosted?

a)

Berkeley Plantation

b)

Plymouth

c)

Monticello

d)

Chatham Manor

4.

Where did the first Africans arrive in Virginia?

a)

Richmond

b)

Appomattox

c)

Accomack

d)

Point Comfort, Hampton

5.

Before the Civil War made him a household name, this Confederate leader lived in Virginia and taught at the Virginia Military Institute.

a)

A.P. Hill

b)

James Longstreet

c)

John Mosby

d)

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson

6.

In 1831, which Virginian led the largest slave rebellion in the U.S.?

a)

Jo Anderson

b)

Cyrus McCormick

c)

Nat Turner

d)

Solomon Northup

7.

What is the name of the company that established the Jamestown Colony?

a)

Virginia Company of Oxford

b)

Virginia Company of Bristol

c)

Dutch East India Company

d)

Virginia Company of London

8.

This Virginia university was once known as the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute, the first public historically black college and university.

a)

Old Dominion University

b)

Virginia State University

c)

Hampton University

d)

University of Richmond

9.

Which is NOT a name of an indigenous tribe in Virginia?

a)

Navajo

b)

Chickahominy

c)

Pamunkey

d)

Mattaponi

10.

Virginia is known as . . .

a)

The Birthplace of Presidents

b)

The Birthplace of the Nation

c)

The Old Dominion

d)

All of the above