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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Angulo say were unworthy to be called Christians?
(a) Spanish soldiers
(b) The King and Queen
(c) Santa Marta natives
(d) Cuba natives

2. The son of the chief in the Yucatan was sold for what?
(a) Cheese
(b) Passage to Spain
(c) A horse
(d) Two pieces of gold

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

4. How many expeditions took place to the river Plate?
(a) 13
(b) 68
(c) 1
(d) 4

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

6. What happened to the chief who was taken hostage?
(a) He was sold as a slave
(b) He was dropped off a cliff
(c) He was killed in front of his people
(d) He was sent to Spain

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

8. Fray Juan Fernandez de Angulo sent a letter to whom?
(a) Hernan Cortes
(b) Beltran Avila
(c) Queen Isabella
(d) King of Spain

9. How many Spaniards destroyed the peace that had been established in the Yucatan?
(a) 180
(b) 30
(c) 5,000
(d) 1,500

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

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

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

13. What was the topic of this letter?
(a) The gold the natives were hiding
(b) The atrocities the Spanish were committing
(c) The plan to convert the natives
(d) The gold the Spanish were hoarding

14. What was Pizzarro's first act in the New World?
(a) Killing entire villages of people
(b) Selling slaves in Puerto Rico
(c) Capturing slaves to carry his goods
(d) Turn villages upside down looking for gold

15. De las Casas says that the Spaniards never did what in the New World?
(a) Loved the New World
(b) Spared the natives
(c) Obeyed the King
(d) Preached the Christian faith

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did de Soto kill the natives?

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

3. In what years were the people of Cartagena killed?

4. The province of Cartagena was located down the coast of what?

5. Francisco Pizzarro journeyed to where?

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