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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Kingdom of New Granada.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the punishment for murder in Spain?
(a) Burning at the stake
(b) Decapitation
(c) Stoning
(d) Hanging

2. What did they want to trade the natives for?
(a) Other natives
(b) Wild dogs
(c) Stolen idols
(d) Gold coins

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

4. Hernando de Soto arrived in what part of the New World?
(a) Panama
(b) Florida
(c) Haiti
(d) Trinidad

5. What did the Spaniards do to Queen Huguanama?
(a) Stoned her
(b) Shot her
(c) Hanged her
(d) Burned her

Short Answer Questions

1. Guzman bartered eighty natives for what?

2. Which kingdom had the best sugar and climate?

3. What did Avila and the Spaniards do when they arrived?

4. What did Avila want to do with the area that he governed?

5. How many years had the atrocities been going on when de las Casas wrote the book?

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