1. Choose the right answer.

1. Indian customs and traditions were extraordinary diverse because ______

a) they came from different territories;

b) they lived under different territories;

c) they appeared at different times;

2. First Americans descend from ______

a) western Europe;

b) Norway;

c) Tribal peoples of North Eastern Siberia.

3. First white settlers were ______

a) Vikings from Greenland;

b) Spanish monks;

c) The French.

4. The major three countries that started colonization of America were ______

a) Spain, France and Germany;

b) Spain, France and England;

c) Holland, Germany and Spain.

5. Why was Spain so interested in colonization of the New World?

a) They were looking for adventures;

b) They were looking for a new continent;

c) They needed new lands and riches as a new source of wealth.

6. The French first settled in ______

a) Canada;

b) Louisiana;

c) Spain.

7. The first people who sailed to America were ______

a) Spanish;

b) Vikings;

c) English.

8. The first European settlements in America were founded by ______

a) England;

b) France;

c) Spain.

9. The British Empire started the colonization of America a century later than Spain because it ______

a) did not need new lands;

b) was busy making war with Spain;

c) did not have a good flat.

10. The first English settlement was called Virginia in honour ______

a) of Sir Raleigh’s wife;

b) of a lake not far from the settlement;

c) of the English Queen Elizabeth the First.