Quiz History

Marganne Dubrule and Christophe Chinchilla

We hope you will enjoy our quiz on the history of Guyana. We have provided a number of links for you to check the information in case you do not know the answers off-hand. Answer the questions below and then click "submit" to send your answers , see your score and have them corrected.

The area of the Guianas is believed to have been settled before 900 AD by

Links to reference material:
Guyana - a Country Study - information about the country from the Library of Congress
Lanic - Latin America Network Information Center -links to Guyana provided by the University of Texas
The World Bank Group - indicators tracing the trends in social and economic development of Guyana
CIA Factbook about Guyana - map/facts and figures/condensed information
lots of links to history, geography, culture, economy,holidays and festivals,etc...
A travel guide to Guyana pointing out most important sites and cultural events

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Warrau Indians and later by the Arawak and Carib tribes.
Nomadic tribes from the South and later Amerindians from the West
Tubinambá Indians
Xingu Indians from the North of Brazil

The first European settlers who established a trading post in 1616 were :

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the Portuguese
The Spanish
the British
The Dutch

What was the first settlers initial purpose?

Your answer:
trade with the indigenous population
find raw material to be re-sold in their native lands
create a new colony
take some vacations

In the 1700s the colonies which form the present-day Guyana grew and progressed with plantations based on :

Your answer:
Coffee, cotton and indian labor
Coffee and slave labor
Sugar cane and slave labor
Sugar cane and indian labor

The Dutch "polder"system, a technique by which a tract of usable land is created by damming and then draining a water-covered area, allowed

Your answer:
the marshy coastal lands of Guyana to be transformed into extremely productive plantation areas
new cities to be built along the coast, attracting new immigrants
engineers and scientists to publish many books on their feat
the settlers to prevent many diseases like malaria and cholera

How did the change of control over the region happen?

Your answer:
The French, allied to the Dutch, took over the region during the Napoleonic wars.
British planters, who eventually constituted the majority of the population of the Guyana, protested against high taxes applied by the Dutch West India Company and took over the region during the British war against the Netherlands in 1781
The British, allied to the French, attacked the Dutch and established themselves in the region
A big number of British planters were attracted to the fertile lands in Guyana and eventually stayed on and took over.

Which Treaty made Guyana return to Dutch control?

Your answer:
Treaty of Honolulu
Treaty of Amiens
Treaty of Amsterdam
Treaty of London

Formal British takeover occurred thanks to

Your answer:
The end of the Dutch West India Company influence and the war with Spain
Lord Nelson's intervention
The battle of Demerara and Essequibo
the French Revolution and the resulting Napoleonic Wars.

Cuffy was

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an apprentice on the plantation who revolted against the system of the planters
the slave who discovered Mount Roraima
leader of a revolt protesting against the harsh and inhumane treatment towards blacks
plantation owner who freed his slaves

British Guiana became an independent State within the British Commonwealth of Nations on

Your answer:
May 26th 1966
January 4th 1954
November 27, 1947
January 11, 1919