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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years had the atrocities been going on when de las Casas wrote the book?
(a) 34
(b) 7
(c) 42
(d) 16

2. Why did "mixed" babies fetch a higher price?
(a) They could become Spanish citizens
(b) They were more attractive
(c) They had Spanish blood
(d) They were smarter than other natives

3. What did the people know in Santa Marta?
(a) How to predict the future
(b) How to extract gold
(c) How to hide from the Spanish
(d) How to make guns

4. How many people were tried for their actions in the New World by the Council of the Indies?
(a) 0
(b) 771
(c) 5,349
(d) 15

5. The Council of the Indies was more concerned about what than natives?
(a) Shipbuilding
(b) Finding a passage through to Asia
(c) Land
(d) Gold

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bono have the natives build?

2. In what year was the river discovered?

3. What was Pizzarro's first act in the New World?

4. How many expeditions took place to the river Plate?

5. In what years were the people of Cartagena killed?

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