CXC CSEC Caribbean History — Paper 1 (Multiple Choice) · Set B
Total marks: 60 · Duration: 75 minutes
Instructions to candidates
- Answer ALL questions in this section.
- Each question is worth ONE mark.
- For each question, there are four possible answers, A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE you consider correct and record your choice on the Multiple Choice Answer Sheet provided.
- Use an HB pencil to record your answers on the Answer Sheet. Do NOT use ink.
- If you need to change an answer, erase it completely and write your new answer.
- Do NOT write on this question paper.
Paper
Section A — Multiple Choice (60 marks)
1. The Tainos (Arawaks) cultivated their main food crop, cassava, in raised mounds called
A) conucos
B) carbets
C) middens
D) haciendas
2. Which leader held authority over a Taino village, organising farming and religious ceremonies?
A) The ouboutou
B) The cacique
C) The encomendero
D) The buccaneer
3. The first successful English colony in the Caribbean, settled in 1624, was
A) Barbados
B) Jamaica
C) St Kitts (St Christopher)
D) Trinidad
4. Sea raiders who operated from Tortuga and attacked Spanish shipping in the 17th century were the
A) caciques
B) buccaneers
C) apprentices
D) maroons
5. On a sugar estate, the heaviest field labour such as digging cane holes was done by the
A) third gang
B) domestic servants
C) first (great) gang
D) drivers
6. The legal act of formally freeing an individual enslaved person was called
A) manumission
B) seasoning
C) indenture
D) apprenticeship
7. Communities of escaped enslaved people who built free settlements in mountainous interiors were the
A) buccaneers
B) maroons
C) indentured labourers
D) apprentices
8. The only slave revolution to create an independent Black state (in 1804) took place in
A) Jamaica
B) Barbados
C) Saint-Domingue (Haiti)
D) Demerara
9. Bussa’s Rebellion of 1816 took place in
A) Jamaica
B) Barbados
C) Trinidad
D) Antigua
10. The British Act that abolished the trade in enslaved Africans was passed in
A) 1807
B) 1834
C) 1838
D) 1865
11. Apprentices who worked directly in the fields on sugar estates were classified as
A) non-praedial
B) praedial
C) stipendiary
D) indentured
12. The Apprenticeship System came to an end for all apprentices in
A) 1834
B) 1836
C) 1838
D) 1840
13. The first ships of Indian indentured labourers, the Whitby and Hesperus, arrived in 1838 in
A) Jamaica
B) Trinidad
C) British Guiana (Guyana)
D) Barbados
14. Historian Hugh Tinker described indentureship as “a new system of”
A) farming
B) slavery
C) government
D) trade
15. The 1846 Sugar Duties Act harmed Caribbean planters because it
A) banned sugar sales in Britain
B) removed the protective tariff that favoured West Indian sugar
C) forced planters to grow bananas
D) doubled the price of sugar
16. The British commission that investigated the causes of the 1930s labour disturbances was the
A) Durham Commission
B) Moyne Commission
C) Tordesillas Commission
D) Wood Commission
17. Jamaica became the first British Caribbean territory to gain universal adult suffrage in
A) 1938
B) 1944
C) 1958
D) 1962
18. The first and only Prime Minister of the West Indies Federation was
A) Eric Williams
B) Grantley Adams
C) Norman Manley
D) Alexander Bustamante
19. CARICOM was established in 1973 by the
A) Treaty of Tordesillas
B) Treaty of Chaguaramas
C) Treaty of Madrid
D) Treaty of Paris
20. The forerunner of CARICOM, set up in the 1960s to promote free trade in the region, was
A) CARIFTA
B) the OECS
C) the CSME
D) the West Indies Federation