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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15 & 16 The River Yuyaparí & The Kingdom of Venezuela.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the largest city in the Kingdom of Guatemala?
(a) Mexicana
(b) Guzman
(c) Michoacan
(d) Utatlan

2. What did the Spanish do to the leader of the Michoacan?
(a) Burned down his home while he was inside
(b) Impaled him on sharpened stakes
(c) Stoned him to death in the square
(d) Roasted his feet over a fire

3. About how many natives were killed in the Spanish search for gold?
(a) 50,000
(b) 250,000
(c) 800,000
(d) 4,000,000

4. Who sent evidence of the atrocities to the Council of the Indies?
(a) Missionaries
(b) Spanish settlers
(c) German merchants
(d) Natives

5. Why did Guzman flee inland?
(a) He feared the natives
(b) A new Audiencia had been appointed
(c) He heard of a gold find
(d) His soldiers staged a mutiny

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Spanish do to the villages?

2. The power of Venezuela was given to which merchants?

3. Pedro Arias de Avila arrived in what year?

4. How many Castilians were stolen by the Germans?

5. Guzman bartered eighty natives for what?

(see the answer key)

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