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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Brother Marcos said that the Peruvians where what?
(a) The most afraid
(b) The dumbest
(c) The trickiest
(d) The nicest

2. How long did it take for all of the people to be killed?
(a) Two days
(b) One year
(c) Three months
(d) Five years

3. In what year did de Soto arrive in the Mainland?
(a) 1479
(b) 1538
(c) 1399
(d) 1612

4. What did the soldiers feed to the dogs?
(a) Babies
(b) Horses
(c) Fish
(d) Grass

5. Who did not want the natives to think that Christians were evil?
(a) Queen Isabella
(b) The Spanish soldiers
(c) Hernan Cortes
(d) The Friars

6. In what year did Angulo send his letter?
(a) 1541
(b) 1662
(c) 1399
(d) 1477

7. In what year did the expeditions to the river Plate take place?
(a) 1587
(b) 1639
(c) 1522
(d) 1492

8. What kind of reports were the Spanish in the New World sending to Spain?
(a) Revolutionary
(b) False
(c) Detailed
(d) Death

9. Why did de Soto kill the natives?
(a) They failed to obey him fast enough
(b) He liked killing natives
(c) They attacked him
(d) To strike fear in the hearts of other natives

10. Francisco Pizzarro journeyed to where?
(a) Peru
(b) Panama
(c) Florida
(d) Hispaniola

11. What information did Quesada demand in Bogota?
(a) Who the heir was
(b) How to extract gold
(c) Which man was king
(d) Where the gold was hidden

12. What were the people like in Florida?
(a) Intelligent
(b) Timid
(c) Backward
(d) Kind

13. Brother Marcos felt that the Spanish actions were what?
(a) Justified
(b) An offense to God
(c) An illustration of Spanish dominance
(d) Misguided

14. A witness to the killing of King Atahualpa was from what Order?
(a) Saint Michael
(b) Saint Joseph
(c) Saint Peter
(d) Saint Francis

15. The province of Cartagena was located down the coast of what?
(a) Guatemala
(b) Santa Clara
(c) Cuba
(d) Santa Marta

Short Answer Questions

1. De Soto argued that what be cut from the survivors of his massacres?

2. What was de Soto's plan?

3. Where did the Spanish adventurer sail to with the natives that he captured?

4. The Province of Santa Marta is now known as what?

5. De las Casas said that the longer men are in the New World, what happens?

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