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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. Pedro Arias de Avila arrived in what year?
(a) 1399
(b) 1514
(c) 1727
(d) 1901

2. What did Hatuey ask the friar when the friar tried to convert him?
(a) If his family could go to heaven to
(b) When he would die
(c) If Spaniards were in heaven
(d) Whether God would save him

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

4. What did the Spanish do with the children of the native people?
(a) Used them as servants
(b) Took them to Africa
(c) Played with them
(d) Sacrificed them

5. Where was King Guarionex sent?
(a) Madrid
(b) New Spain
(c) England
(d) Castile

Short Answer Questions

1. What resource did the Spanish begin using up?

2. The citizens of Mexico City were forced to do what before they were killed?

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

4. What was the main Spanish policy toward the New World?

5. Who was the strongest of all the kings?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who set out for Nicaragua in 1522 or 1523? What did this person find? What did he do when he arrived?

2. What happened to the natives that were captured? Give examples from the book.

3. Why did the Spanish establish a permanent settlement in Santa Marta? What did the new commander do to the area?

4. What did Fray Juan Fernandez de Angulo do?

5. Why did de las Casas write the book? Who was his audience?

6. How did the Guatemalans fight back against the Spanish? Were they successful? Why or why not?

7. What did King Bacata agree to do? How did this turn out?

8. What happened to the friars in the village? What was later learned?

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

10. What did Hatuey tell his people? What happened to Hatuey?

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