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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. King Guarionex had everyone send what to the King and Queen?
(a) A gourd full of gold
(b) Five diamonds
(c) Ten horses
(d) Their first born sons

2. 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 let the Spanish government know about the glorious acts of its citizens in the New World
(c) To record the history of Spain in the New World
(d) To analyze the social problems that had developed in the New World

3. Guzman bartered eighty natives for what?
(a) A horse
(b) A ship
(c) A chest of gold
(d) Land in Florida

4. De Las Casas says that Avila was what?
(a) Smart
(b) Cruel
(c) Stupid
(d) Kind

5. What did Hatuey do with the gold?
(a) Paid off the Spaniards
(b) Hid it in the mountains
(c) Threw it in the river
(d) Buried it

6. 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) Roasted his feet over a fire
(d) Burned down his home while he was inside

7. Marién had what kind of mines?
(a) Gold and silver
(b) Gold and diamonds
(c) Gold and copper
(d) Gold and emeralds

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

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

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

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

12. Who was the strongest of all the kings?
(a) Caonabó
(b) Guacanagari
(c) Behechio
(d) Guarionex

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

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

15. Where was King Guarionex sent?
(a) England
(b) Castile
(c) New Spain
(d) Madrid

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Spanish send after the people who escaped to the mountains?

2. How many people did the Spanish kill around Mexico City?

3. Why did the native people take up arms?

4. Queen Isabella was a strong advocate of what?

5. Who was killed when the boat he was on was caught in a storm?

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