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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. The Spaniards said that they did everything in whose name?
(a) The Queen
(b) The King
(c) Christ
(d) Columbus

5. Where did Avila go in 1522 or 1523?
(a) Nicaragua
(b) Brazil
(c) Canada
(d) Cuba

6. What did the Spaniards make the captives eat?
(a) Dirt
(b) Wild chickens
(c) Wild grasses
(d) Insects

7. What did the Spanish force Montezuma to tell the citizens?
(a) To kill themselves
(b) To stop fighting
(c) To give the Spanish all their belongings
(d) To covert to Christianity

8. What happened to the native people who were not killed?
(a) They were sent to Spain
(b) They were left in the mountains
(c) They were allowed to live in peace
(d) They were made slaves

9. When did the soldiers try to escape from the natives?
(a) The middle of the night
(b) Sunday
(c) Christmas
(d) Noon

10. How many children died while De Las Casas was in Cuba?
(a) 200
(b) 300,000
(c) 7,000
(d) 1,000

11. How many kingdoms were there in Hispaniola?
(a) 11
(b) 8
(c) 2
(d) 5

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

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

14. How many people did the Spaniards kill on the day they decided to go on a killing spree?
(a) 500
(b) 50
(c) 3,000
(d) 1,000

15. When did the Spaniards arrive on Puerto Rico and Jamaica?
(a) 1679
(b) 1509
(c) 1496
(d) 1411

Short Answer Questions

1. On one occasion, 4000 natives carried loads. How many survived the ordeal?

2. Where were the slaves sent?

3. How many people remained on the two islands when the Spaniards were done killing the natives?

4. What advantage did the Spaniards have over the native people?

5. What resource did the Spanish begin using up?

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