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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 Hatuey do with the gold?
(a) Buried it
(b) Paid off the Spaniards
(c) Hid it in the mountains
(d) Threw it in the river

2. What did the Spaniards do to Queen Huguanama?
(a) Shot her
(b) Stoned her
(c) Burned her
(d) Hanged her

3. What made it hard for the natives to run away?
(a) Chains on their legs
(b) The mountains close by
(c) Flat terrain
(d) The Spanish snipers

4. The Spanish said that for every one Spaniard who died, how many natives would be killed?
(a) 10
(b) 1,000
(c) 5
(d) 100

5. Nicolas de Ovando asked the native people to do what at the festival they threw for him?
(a) Give him their gold
(b) Go into a straw hut
(c) Sacrifice their children
(d) Convert to Christianity

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the executioner do to quiet the screams?

2. Who arrived in New Spain in 1525?

3. Which Christian missionary was present?

4. Where was King Guarionex sent?

5. What happened to Hatuey?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who arrived on the island of Trinidad in 1516? How did he kill the natives on the island?

3. How did the Spanish treat the individuals along the River Plate? Give specific examples from the book.

4. What did Avila establish in Nicaragua? Why did he establish this policy? What were the consequences?

5. What did Fray Juan Fernandez de Angulo do?

6. What happened in the kingdoms of Marien and Maguana? Give examples from the book. What were these kingdoms known for?

7. What happened between Pizzarro and King Atahualpa? How was Atahualpa killed?

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

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

10. Who confronted Bono? What reply did Bono give?

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