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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The citizens of Mexico City were forced to do what before they were killed?
(a) Dance
(b) Covert to Christianity
(c) Work
(d) Pledge loyalty to Spain

2. Who did their best to bring justice to the land?
(a) Christian missionaries
(b) Spanish commanders
(c) Spanish sailors
(d) The King and Queen

3. What did the Spanish in Cuzcatlan make the slaves eat?
(a) Wild grasses
(b) Horse meat
(c) The prisoners that they took
(d) Poison mushrooms

4. When one Spanish commander couldn't sleep because of the screams, what did he ask the executioner to do?
(a) Let the person go
(b) Hurry up the death
(c) Take the execution to another part of the island
(d) Cut out the person's tongue

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

6. How many people did the Spanish kill around Mexico City?
(a) 900
(b) 15,000,000
(c) 4,000,000
(d) 12,000

7. What did the Spanish gain from killing Paris and his people?
(a) His land
(b) Gold
(c) The Queen's approval
(d) Loyalty from other villages

8. Which kingdom was run by a brother and sister?
(a) Higuey
(b) Xaraguá
(c) Maguá
(d) Maguana

9. What did Hatuey call the God of the Spaniards?
(a) Gold
(b) The Queen
(c) Land
(d) Diamonds

10. What made it hard for the natives to run away?
(a) The mountains close by
(b) The Spanish snipers
(c) Chains on their legs
(d) Flat terrain

11. What did Hatuey ask the friar when the friar tried to convert him?
(a) When he would die
(b) If his family could go to heaven to
(c) Whether God would save him
(d) If Spaniards were in heaven

12. What did the Spanish do to the leader of the Michoacan?
(a) Roasted his feet over a fire
(b) Stoned him to death in the square
(c) Burned down his home while he was inside
(d) Impaled him on sharpened stakes

13. Nicolas de Ovando asked the native people to do what at the festival they threw for him?
(a) Give him their gold
(b) Convert to Christianity
(c) Go into a straw hut
(d) Sacrifice their children

14. What did the Spaniards make the captives eat?
(a) Insects
(b) Dirt
(c) Wild chickens
(d) Wild grasses

15. Who arrived in New Spain in 1525?
(a) Beltran Nuno de Guzman
(b) Antonio Christopher Bellan
(c) Ferdinand de las Gracia
(d) Alexandre de Pizzarro

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Spanish want that the Guatemalans didn't have?

2. How many kingdoms were there in Hispaniola?

3. What did the Spanish send after the people who escaped to the mountains?

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

5. When did Queen Isabella of Spain die?

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