Vocabulary Quiz

Choose the correct definition of colonize.

• to claim land for a nation by drawing a map

• to claim land for a nation by making a new culture

• to claim land for a nation by establishing a settlement

• to claim land for a nation by exploring it

Choose the correct word or phrase to complete the dictionary entry. Vocabulary Term: indigenous Definition: native; ________ to a place

• original

• foreign

• alien

• distant

Choose the correct word or phrase to complete the dictionary entry. Vocabulary Term: ancestor Definition: a relative who lived ________ you

• before

• after

• beside

• near

Read the definition. Then choose the vocabulary term defined. West African storyteller or poet who recalls historical events and transmits history and culture from one generation to the next

• shaman

• chief

• ancestor

• griot

Read the definition. Then choose the vocabulary term defined. the belief that animals, plants, and even inanimate objects have spirits

• animism

• Confucianism

• feudalism

• Buddhism

Choose the correct definition of oral.

• of or relating to the eyes; read

• of or relating to the nose; smelled

• of or relating to the brain; understood

• of or relating to the mouth; spoken

Choose the correct definition of caravan.

• a group of people who spread Islam through conquest

• a book written about medicine

• a group of people traveling together

• a book written with decorative handwriting

Read the definition. Then choose the vocabulary term defined. a measure of a location’s distance east or west of the prime meridian

• latitude

• longitude

• absolute location

• relative location

Choose the correct definition of oral history.

• past events shared by spoken stories and songs

• the expression of human creativity and imagination

• the traditions, skills, arts, beliefs, and other ways of life of a certain people at a certain time

• a fictional story that includes a moral lesson, often using people or animals with unusual abilities as characters

Choose the correct word or phrase to complete the dictionary entry. Vocabulary Term: kente cloth. Definition: a traditional, colorfully patterned, hand-woven cloth from _______.

• West Africa

• Central America

• the Middle East

• Western Europe