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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did they want to trade the natives for?
(a) Gold coins
(b) Wild dogs
(c) Stolen idols
(d) Other natives

2. The natives equated the word "Christian" with what?
(a) Devil
(b) Savior
(c) Death
(d) Angel

3. How many Castilians were stolen by the Germans?
(a) 1 million
(b) 150 million
(c) 40 million
(d) 3 million

4. A Spanish commander's actions were reported to whom?
(a) Royal Court
(b) Council of the Indies
(c) Council of Castile
(d) Audiencia of Hispaniola

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

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

7. What was one of the deadliest jobs for the native slaves?
(a) Pearl fishing
(b) Hauling goods for the Spanish
(c) Mining for Gold
(d) Harvesting wild grains

8. Who led the conquest of the Yucatan?
(a) Francisco de Montejo
(b) Hernan Cortes
(c) Ferdinand de la Cristano
(d) Beltran de Avila

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

10. What topic did the Dominicans send a monk out to preach on?
(a) Life Everlasting
(b) Revelations
(c) The Ten Commandments
(d) Obeying the Spanish

11. Who sent evidence of the atrocities to the Council of the Indies?
(a) Spanish settlers
(b) German merchants
(c) Missionaries
(d) Natives

12. In what year was the river discovered?
(a) 1413
(b) 1472
(c) 1628
(d) 1529

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. What injury did the pearl fishers develop?
(a) Fish bites
(b) Lost limbs
(c) Heart attacks
(d) Sores on their back

15. The Province of Santa Marta is now known as what?
(a) Panama
(b) Brazil
(c) Columbia
(d) Mexico

Short Answer Questions

1. What characteristic did Angulo want to see in a commander?

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

3. What did the natives hand over to the Friars?

4. How long did it take for all of the people to be killed?

5. What did one community do as the Spanish approached?

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