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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 The Kingdoms of Hispaniola.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the captives begin dying of?
(a) Stoning
(b) Malnutrition
(c) Malaria
(d) Cancer

2. King Guarionex had everyone send what to the King and Queen?
(a) A gourd full of gold
(b) Their first born sons
(c) Five diamonds
(d) Ten horses

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

4. Which kingdom had the best sugar and climate?
(a) Xaraguá
(b) Higuey
(c) Marién
(d) Maguana

5. Nicolas de Ovando asked the native people to do what at the festival they threw for him?
(a) Convert to Christianity
(b) Sacrifice their children
(c) Give him their gold
(d) Go into a straw hut

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was King Guarionex sent?

2. The Spanish said that for every one Spaniard who died, how many natives would be killed?

3. What did the Spaniards make the captives eat?

4. What advantage did the Spaniards have over the native people?

5. Why was A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies written?

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