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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15 & 16 The River Yuyaparí & The Kingdom of Venezuela.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the natives have to carry?
(a) The Spanish
(b) Anchors
(c) Chests of gold
(d) Huts

2. What did the Spanish do to the women and girls?
(a) Killed them with swords
(b) Banished them to Cuba
(c) Sent them to Spain as slaves
(d) Married them

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

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

5. About how many Spaniards did Paris and his men kill?
(a) 15
(b) 250
(c) 50
(d) 130

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Spanish do to the leader of the Michoacan?

2. Who fled to the mountains to hide from the Spanish?

3. What kind of reports were the Spanish in the New World sending to Spain?

4. Who sent evidence of the atrocities to the Council of the Indies?

5. The lord named Paris lived close to where?

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