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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the king in Mexico City?
(a) Cortez
(b) Avila
(c) Pizzarro
(d) Montezuma

2. Avila established a system of licenses where the Spanish could demand what?
(a) Slaves
(b) Gold
(c) Land
(d) Food

3. Why was A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies written?
(a) To let the Spanish government know about the glorious acts of its citizens 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 inform the King of Spain of the murder and gold hoarding that was taking place in the New World

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

5. What resource did the Spanish begin using up?
(a) Water
(b) Food
(c) Jewelry
(d) Clothing

6. What did the executioner do to quiet the screams?
(a) Gagged the men
(b) Let the men go
(c) Killed the men quickly
(d) Buried the men

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

8. The area experienced a shortage of what food?
(a) Fish
(b) Milk
(c) Grain
(d) Honey

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

10. What made it hard for the natives to run away?
(a) Flat terrain
(b) The mountains close by
(c) Chains on their legs
(d) The Spanish snipers

11. Which kingdom had the best sugar and climate?
(a) Higuey
(b) Maguana
(c) Xaraguá
(d) Marién

12. Who tried to intervene when the Spanish captured Hatuey?
(a) His wife
(b) Queen Isabella
(c) A Franciscan Friar
(d) A Spanish commander

13. The citizens of Mexico City were forced to do what before they were killed?
(a) Dance
(b) Work
(c) Covert to Christianity
(d) Pledge loyalty to Spain

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group was rounded up first for the Spanish?

2. The Spaniards said that they did everything in whose name?

3. De Las Casas says that Avila was what?

4. What was the first territory on which the Spanish landed?

5. What did the Spanish do to the women and girls?

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