607 Quiz 1

Question 1

Most cropland in the islands is used for what?

Answer 1

Growing food for export

Question 2

Who overthrew the Cuban dictator in 1959?

Answer 2

Fidel Castro

Question 3

The West Indies include twelve what?

Answer 3

Dependencies

Question 4

West Indians with both African and European ancestors are called?

Answer 4

Mulattoes

Question 5

What is an important source of income in the West Indies?

Answer 5

Tourism

Question 6

Where is Cuba’s Capital?

Answer 6

Havana

Question 7

The three archipelagos of the West Indies are:

Answer 7

1) Bahamas 2) Great Antilles, and 3) Lesser Antilles

Question 8

Where do the greatest percentage of people in the West Indies live?

Answer 8

The Greater Antilles

Question 9

The United States supported an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba where?

Answer 9

Bay of Pigs

Question 10

In recent years, Cuban farmers have been able to sell produce where?

Answer 10

Farmers Markets

Question 11

The Bahama’s flat terrain results in the island getting more or less rainfall than other West Indian islands?

Answer 11

Less

Question 12

What is the pearl of the Antilles?

Answer 12

Cuba

Question 13

What is the United States military base in Cuba called?

Answer 13

Guantanamo Bay

Question 14

Cuba became communist when who took over?

Answer 14

Fidel Castro

Question 15

Be able to label the following places on a map

Answer 15

1) Caribbean Sea 2) Atlantic Ocean 3) Bahamas 4) Great Antilles 5) Lesser Antilles 6) Cuba 7) Jamaica 8) Hispaniola (see lesson 4 for example map)

Question 16

What is a dependency of the United States in the Caribbean?

Answer 16

Puerto Rico

Question 17

Most of the West Indies lie south of what line?

Answer 17

Tropic of Cancer

Question 18

The Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and Lesser Antilles make up the three what of the West Indies?

Answer 18

Archipelagos

Question 19

Fidel Castro did what to Cuba’s sugar industry?

Answer 19

Nationalized it

Question 20

When Cuba began to raise more crops than just sugarcane it was a move to ______ its economy?

Answer 20

Diversify

Question 21

What amendment allowed the United States to be involved in Cuba?

Answer 21

Platt Amendment

Question 22

Cuba’s communist government controls what type of farms?

Answer 22

Collective Farms

Question 23

Who was Cuba’s Father of Independence?

Answer 23

Jose Marti

Question 24

Where could slaves buy their freedom?

Answer 24

In Cuba

Question 25

At the Bay of Pigs, what country supported an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba?

Answer 25

The United States

Question 26

The West Indies protect the Caribbean from the Atlantic Ocean. It is called a what?

Answer 26

Breakwater

Question 27

Over half of the people of the West Indies liver where?

Answer 27

Coastal Cities

Question 28

Why do few Native Americans live in the West Indies today?

Answer 28

Most died from three things 1) Disease after the Europeans arrived 2) Mistreatment 3) Forced Labor

Question 29

Cuba exports what two things?

Answer 29

Sugar and Citrus