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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. 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

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

3. Guzman bartered eighty natives for what?
(a) Land in Florida
(b) A chest of gold
(c) A horse
(d) A ship

4. How many people were driven out of Venezuela?
(a) 6 to 7 thousand
(b) 4 to 5 million
(c) 80 to 90 thousand
(d) 3 to 5 hundred

5. What did the Spanish in Cuzcatlan make the slaves eat?
(a) Horse meat
(b) The prisoners that they took
(c) Wild grasses
(d) Poison mushrooms

Short Answer Questions

1. The German governor used the natives as what?

2. The natives were given the choice of converting to Christianity and swearing allegiance to Spain or what other choice?

3. What was the largest city in the Kingdom of Guatemala?

4. Pedro Arias de Avila arrived in what year?

5. What kind of reports were the Spanish in the New World sending to Spain?

(see the answer key)

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