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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. De las Casas argued that the Spanish had lost what, which made it possible for them to commit the injustices that they did?
(a) Their arrogance
(b) A fear of God
(c) A belief in themselves
(d) Their humility

2. King Guarionex had everyone send what to the King and Queen?
(a) A gourd full of gold
(b) Five diamonds
(c) Ten horses
(d) Their first born sons

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

4. The citizens of Mexico City were forced to do what before they were killed?
(a) Dance
(b) Work
(c) Pledge loyalty to Spain
(d) Covert to Christianity

5. What did many natives do when threatened by the Spaniards?
(a) Threw a festival to win over the Spaniards
(b) Surrendered
(c) Hanged themselves
(d) Jumped into the ocean

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened if the natives obeyed the Spanish?

2. Nicolas de Ovando asked the native people to do what at the festival they threw for him?

3. How many people did the Spanish kill around Mexico City?

4. Which group was rounded up first for the Spanish?

5. About how many natives died of hunger in Nicaragua?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did the Spaniards first land in the Indies? What happened in this first encounter?

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

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

4. What were the islands of Puerto Rico and Jamaica known for? What happened when the Spanish landed there?

5. What did the missionaries do? Were their actions successful? Why or why not?

6. Who was Paris? How did the encounter go between his territory and the Spanish? What happened afterward?

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

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

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

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

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