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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 & 18 The Mainland in the Region known as Florida & The River Plate.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the people know in Santa Marta?
(a) How to make guns
(b) How to extract gold
(c) How to hide from the Spanish
(d) How to predict the future

2. The troop of Spanish soldiers took about how many women and girls?
(a) 350
(b) 500
(c) 12
(d) 80

3. What did many natives do when threatened by the Spaniards?
(a) Surrendered
(b) Threw a festival to win over the Spaniards
(c) Jumped into the ocean
(d) Hanged themselves

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

5. The province of Cartagena was located down the coast of what?
(a) Santa Clara
(b) Guatemala
(c) Cuba
(d) Santa Marta

Short Answer Questions

1. Queen Isabella was a strong advocate of what?

2. How many people did the Spaniards kill on the day they decided to go on a killing spree?

3. De Soto argued that what be cut from the survivors of his massacres?

4. How did the natives react to the Spanish when they landed?

5. About how many natives were killed in the Spanish search for gold?

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