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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 The Mainland.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Spanish do with the children of the native people?
(a) Used them as servants
(b) Sacrificed them
(c) Took them to Africa
(d) Played with them

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

3. In 1511, the Spaniards landed where?
(a) Cuba
(b) Bahamas
(c) Panama
(d) Florida

4. Why did the Spanish not abide by the rules?
(a) Hunger
(b) Gold
(c) Their aggressive natures
(d) The attack by the native people

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did many natives do when threatened by the Spaniards?

2. What did the captives begin dying of?

3. Why did the native people take up arms?

4. Why was A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies written?

5. What was the main Spanish policy toward the New World?

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