CAPE History Unit 1 Paper 01 Exam

• The exam is Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination® History Unit 1, Paper 01.
• The exam is administered by the Caribbean Examinations Council.
• The exam duration is 1 hour and 30 minutes.
• The exam date is 06 JUNE 2019 (a.m.).

Exam Instructions

• The test has 45 items.
• An answer sheet is provided.
• Each item has four suggested answers (A, B, C, D).

Question 1

• This question asks about the religion of the Tainos or Kalinagos.

Question 2

• This question asks which description is FALSE for the Aztec, Inca and Maya people.

Question 3

• This question asks which statement is true for ANY ONE of the Kalinago,Taino, or Tupi groups.

Question 4

• This questions asks which activity was NOT a feature of indigenous mainland American societies.

Question 5

• This question asks which term refers to traditional stories of Norse history.

Question 6

• This question asks for which of the following were the continental indigenous Americans characterized: I. Settled agriculture, II. Nomadic lifestyle, and III. Advanced building technologies.

Question 7

• This question asks what the lack of evidence of contact between the people of the Atlantic World and Africa prior to Columbus was MAINLY related to.

Question 8

• The question asks from where the most detailed information available to historians on the Vikings has come.

Question 9

• This question asks about the ocean current that possibly assisted the Europeans in reaching the Caribbean islands.

Question 10

• This question asks what factors accounted for the Spanish conquest of the Inca. This involves analyzing the death of the Sapa Inca, resistance from the Indians, and the superior military force of the Spanish.

Question 11

• This question asks who made the encomienda system official Spanish policy in 1503.

Question 12

• The question asks how the Spanish Crown sought to protect the indigenous people of the Greater Antilles.

Question 13

• The question asks about Bartolomé de las Casas' association.

Question 14

• This question asks why Cortés' military campaign in Central America between 1519 and 1521 was mainly successful.

Question 15

• The question asks the main reason for the shift of Spanish colonization from the Caribbean to Mexico.

Question 16

• The question asks what was used to classify offspring of mixed unions in Caribbean slave society.

Question 17

• This question asks which strategies were used to safeguard white control of plantation societies, involving alliances with Maroons, encouraging white migration, and granting rights to free coloureds and free blacks.

Question 18

• This question asks why enslaved Africans dreaded working in the factory more than cutting cane.

Question 19

• This question asks what a 'pen' on a sugar plantation was MAINLY used as.

Question 20

• The question asks what the MAIN factors were which determined the allocation of enslaved men to domestic duties.

Question 21

• This question asks when the 'seasoning' of newly enslaved Africans took place.

Question 22

• The question asks why West Indian planters gave provision grounds to the enslaved mainly.

Question 23

• This question asks which 'periods of weakness' among whites were used by enslaved Africans to stage revolts in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Question 24

• This question asks what factors BEST explain the suppression of the 1831 rebellion in Jamaica, involving the strategy of the militia, inadequate strategy by rebels, and the involvement of the Maroons.

Question 25

• This question asks why the Haitian Revolution was fought MAINLY.

Question 26

• This question asks what was the MAJOR factor that stirred the Haitian revolution.

Question 27

• This question asks what European country was Haiti of importance in the 1790s.

Question 28

• The question asks what the claim that the reduction of profits from the sugar industry led to the ending of slavery is referred to as.

Question 29

• The question asks for one of the provisions of the Amelioration Proposals of 1823.

Question 30

• This question asks what events galvanized support for the abolitionists' cause in England, involving the persecution of Sarah Ann Gill in Barbados, the death of Reverend John Smith in Demerara, and the persecution of William Knibb and Thomas Burchell in Jamaica.

Question 31

• This question asks which factors was a consequence of emancipation.

Question 32

• The question asks what the MOST popular occupation of formerly enslaved females was.

Question 33

• The question asks what the MAIN contribution of the peasantry to the Caribbean between 1838 and 1900 was.

Question 34

• This question asks why planters in British Guiana imported more indentured labourers than their Jamaican counterparts.

Question 35

• This question asks why Indian immigrants came to the Caribbean in the nineteenth century, involving earning higher wages, escaping death in their homeland, and escaping poverty and famine in their homeland.

Question 36

• The question asks which factor BEST explains Dessalines' need to swiftly improve the fortifications in Haiti after 1804.

Question 37

• The question asks what hindered the creation of a just society in Haiti between 1804 and 1825.

Question 38

• This question asks the year in which Haiti's independence recognized by France.

Question 39

• This question asks which statement BEST describes associated statehood in the British colonies in the twentieth century.

Question 40

• The question asks the MAIN reason for the end of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States by 1962.

Question 41

• This question asks in what areas the MAJOR advances in Cuba were by the 1970s.

Question 42

• The question asks what one of the policies of the Cuban government towards the Caribbean and Latin America was during the 1960s and 1970s.

Question 43

• This question asks which of the following Jamaican political leaders was considered a 'Father of Independence'.

Question 44

• This question asks what specific action brought about the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

Question 45

• This question asks which of the following territories was NOT an overseas Department of France.