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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the original purpose of the expedition?

2. About how many natives were killed in the Spanish search for gold?

3. What happened to the native people who were not killed?

4. What did Hatuey ask the friar when the friar tried to convert him?

5. The troop of Spanish soldiers took about how many women and girls?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who arrived in 1514? What was this person like? What were his goals for the mainland?

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

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

6. What did the Spanish gain in the New World? How did they gain what they did?

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

8. How did de Soto treat the natives? Give specific examples from the book.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who was Beltran Nuno de Guzman? What positions did he serve in? Why did he flee from Mexico City? How did he treat the natives that he encountered? Give at least three specific examples to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Describe what slavery was like for the native people. What tasks were they forced to perform? How were they treated? What dangers did they face? Why did so many of the enslaved natives die? How did the Spanish obtain their slaves?

Essay Topic 3

How did the Spanish treat the natives in the New World? Give at least three specific examples from the book to back up your answer. Why did they treat them like this?

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