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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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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. What did the captives begin dying of?
(a) Malaria
(b) Malnutrition
(c) Stoning
(d) Cancer

2. What did the Spanish send after the people who escaped to the mountains?
(a) Fire
(b) Snipers
(c) Wild dogs
(d) Platoon of soldiers

3. Hatuey fled from Hispaniola to where?
(a) Jamaica
(b) Puerto Rico
(c) Bahamas
(d) Cuba

4. What did Avila want to do with the area that he governed?
(a) Mine diamonds
(b) Settle it with Spaniards
(c) Give it back to the natives
(d) Create his own kingdom

5. About how many pounds were the slaves required to carry?
(a) 25
(b) 130
(c) 75
(d) 5

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Queen Isabella of Spain die?

2. Pedro Arias de Avila arrived in what year?

3. What did the Spanish want that the Guatemalans didn't have?

4. New Spain was founded in what year?

5. What did Hatuey call the God of the Spaniards?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the Guatemalans receive the Spanish? What did the Spanish do? How did the neighboring groups react?

3. Why did some of the natives lose faith in the Dominicans? What did they do? How did the Dominicans feel about this?

4. What reaction did the Spanish receive in Mexico City? What happened in the encounter?

5. How did the Spanish kill the native people in Cuba? What did some of the native people do to avoid the torture and brutal killings?

6. Who led the conquest in Yucatan? How did he secure this position? What did he do in the conquest?

7. What happened to the people of Nicaragua after the Spanish arrived? Why couldn't they escape?

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

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

10. What does de las Casas attribute the violence to? Why did he think the Spanish acted as they did?

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