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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 do to the leader of the Michoacan?
(a) Stoned him to death in the square
(b) Roasted his feet over a fire
(c) Impaled him on sharpened stakes
(d) Burned down his home while he was inside

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

3. What weapons did the natives use against the Spanish?
(a) Fire as they burned the soldiers' quarters down
(b) Guns and cannons
(c) Swords and horses
(d) Holes in the road with sharpened stakes inside

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

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

6. The lord named Paris lived close to where?
(a) California
(b) England
(c) Florida
(d) Panama

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

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

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

10. When one Spanish commander couldn't sleep because of the screams, what did he ask the executioner to do?
(a) Hurry up the death
(b) Cut out the person's tongue
(c) Let the person go
(d) Take the execution to another part of the island

11. New Spain was founded in what year?
(a) 1803
(b) 1517
(c) 1699
(d) 1432

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

13. Nicolas de Ovando was granted the title of governor in 1501 for which kingdom?
(a) Xaraguá
(b) Maguana
(c) Maguá
(d) Higuey

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1511, the Spaniards landed where?

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

3. What made it hard for the natives to run away?

4. How many people were killed in Honduras?

5. The Spanish found that the gold in Cuzcatlan was mainly what?

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