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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did their best to bring justice to the land?
(a) Spanish commanders
(b) Spanish sailors
(c) Christian missionaries
(d) The King and Queen

2. Nicolas de Ovando asked the native people to do what at the festival they threw for him?
(a) Convert to Christianity
(b) Go into a straw hut
(c) Give him their gold
(d) Sacrifice their children

3. How many people did the Spanish kill around Mexico City?
(a) 4,000,000
(b) 12,000
(c) 900
(d) 15,000,000

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

5. Which group was rounded up first for the Spanish?
(a) Young men
(b) Orphans
(c) Young women
(d) The Elderly

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

7. What did the Spanish do to the women and girls?
(a) Banished them to Cuba
(b) Killed them with swords
(c) Sent them to Spain as slaves
(d) Married them

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

9. When the natives did not obey the claims of the Spanish, they were labeled what?
(a) Loyalists
(b) Outlaws
(c) Nationalists
(d) Irrational

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

11. 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

12. Why did the native people take up arms?
(a) The Spanish threatened to leave
(b) They ran out of food
(c) The Spanish took over their homes
(d) A Spanish commander raped the chief's wife

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

14. How many people remained on the two islands when the Spaniards were done killing the natives?
(a) 200
(b) 5,000
(c) 1,000
(d) 10,000

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The troop of Spanish soldiers took about how many women and girls?

2. Where were the slaves sent?

3. Who was the king in Mexico City?

4. Who was the strongest of all the kings?

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

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