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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who arrived in New Spain in 1525?
(a) Antonio Christopher Bellan
(b) Beltran Nuno de Guzman
(c) Alexandre de Pizzarro
(d) Ferdinand de las Gracia

2. How did the natives react to the Spanish when they landed?
(a) They were scared
(b) They welcomed them
(c) They were hesitant about the encounter
(d) They tried to kill them

3. What did the Spanish do to the villages?
(a) Praised them
(b) Built them up
(c) Moved them to the mountains
(d) Burned them

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

5. What was the largest city in the Kingdom of Guatemala?
(a) Mexicana
(b) Michoacan
(c) Guzman
(d) Utatlan

Short Answer Questions

1. New Spain was founded in what year?

2. Who fled to the mountains to hide from the Spanish?

3. What happened to the native people who were not killed?

4. The area experienced a shortage of what food?

5. What did the Spanish do to the leader of the Michoacan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Pizzarro do in Tumba to the natives? Give specific details from the book.

2. How did Quesada treat the native people of New Granada? Give specific examples from the book.

3. How did the Spaniards treat the native people that they encountered? Give examples from the book.

4. The situation became worse for the natives after what happened? Why did this worsen the situation?

5. What happened to the natives that first escaped the Spaniards? What did the Spaniards do when the natives killed one of the soldiers?

6. Who was de las Casas? What was his reason for being in the New World?

7. What is the province of Santa Marta known as today? Why did the Spanish go to this province?

8. Who traveled inland to New Granada? What did he find?

9. What did Brother Marcus witness? What did he do in response?

10. Who arrived in New Spain in 1525? What position did he hold? What did he do with the native people?

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