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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 The Mainland.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1511, the Spaniards landed where?
(a) Cuba
(b) Florida
(c) Bahamas
(d) Panama

2. About how many natives were killed in the Spanish search for gold?
(a) 4,000,000
(b) 250,000
(c) 50,000
(d) 800,000

3. What did Avila want to do with the area that he governed?
(a) Create his own kingdom
(b) Give it back to the natives
(c) Mine diamonds
(d) Settle it with Spaniards

4. How many children died while De Las Casas was in Cuba?
(a) 1,000
(b) 200
(c) 300,000
(d) 7,000

5. Hatuey fled from Hispaniola to where?
(a) Cuba
(b) Bahamas
(c) Jamaica
(d) Puerto Rico

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the native people who were not killed?

2. Pedro Arias de Avila arrived in what year?

3. Nicolas de Ovando asked the native people to do what at the festival they threw for him?

4. Who tried to intervene when the Spanish captured Hatuey?

5. Why was A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies written?

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