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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 The Mainland.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Spanish do to the villages?
(a) Praised them
(b) Built them up
(c) Burned them
(d) Moved them to the mountains

2. What was the main Spanish policy toward the New World?
(a) To exploit the resources in the New World
(b) To convert and save the natives
(c) To gain as much money as possible
(d) To kill the natives

3. What resource did the Spanish begin using up?
(a) Jewelry
(b) Clothing
(c) Water
(d) Food

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did the captives begin dying of?

4. Who was killed when the boat he was on was caught in a storm?

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

(see the answer key)

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