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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11 The Kingdom of Yucatan.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the main Spanish policy toward the New World?
(a) To gain as much money as possible
(b) To convert and save the natives
(c) To exploit the resources in the New World
(d) To kill the natives

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

3. The natives were determined to kill whom after their children were taken?
(a) The Spanish commander
(b) The Friars
(c) Hernan Cortes
(d) The neighboring lord

4. Which group was rounded up first for the Spanish?
(a) Young men
(b) Orphans
(c) The Elderly
(d) Young women

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did "mixed" babies fetch a higher price?

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

3. About how many Spaniards did Paris and his men kill?

4. The natives were given the choice of converting to Christianity and swearing allegiance to Spain or what other choice?

5. De Las Casas says that Avila was what?

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