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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14 The Pearl Coast, Paria, and Trinidad.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies written?
(a) To inform the King of Spain of the murder and gold hoarding that was taking place in the New World
(b) To record the history of Spain in the New World
(c) To analyze the social problems that had developed in the New World
(d) To let the Spanish government know about the glorious acts of its citizens in the New World

2. What did the Spanish send after the people who escaped to the mountains?
(a) Platoon of soldiers
(b) Snipers
(c) Fire
(d) Wild dogs

3. What injury did the pearl fishers develop?
(a) Fish bites
(b) Heart attacks
(c) Sores on their back
(d) Lost limbs

4. Pedro Arias de Avila arrived in what year?
(a) 1901
(b) 1399
(c) 1514
(d) 1727

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

Short Answer Questions

1. De las Casas argued that the Spanish had lost what, which made it possible for them to commit the injustices that they did?

2. Fray Juan Fernandez de Angulo sent a letter to whom?

3. Who confronted Juan Bono?

4. Where did some of the native people try to escape to?

5. Who arrived in New Spain in 1525?

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