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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hatuey fled from Hispaniola to where?
(a) Puerto Rico
(b) Cuba
(c) Jamaica
(d) Bahamas

2. Marién had what kind of mines?
(a) Gold and silver
(b) Gold and copper
(c) Gold and diamonds
(d) Gold and emeralds

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

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

5. Where did some of the native people try to escape to?
(a) The mountains
(b) Mexico
(c) The jungle
(d) Cuba

6. What post did Guzman hold?
(a) Mayor of Utatlan
(b) Admiral of Honduras
(c) Governor of Mexico City
(d) Governor of Panama

7. Only a small percentage of what was given to the Spanish purse?
(a) Gold
(b) Diamonds
(c) Jewelry
(d) Silver

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

9. Who did their best to bring justice to the land?
(a) Christian missionaries
(b) The King and Queen
(c) Spanish commanders
(d) Spanish sailors

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

11. Which group was rounded up first for the Spanish?
(a) Young men
(b) The Elderly
(c) Young women
(d) Orphans

12. Who arrived in New Spain in 1525?
(a) Beltran Nuno de Guzman
(b) Alexandre de Pizzarro
(c) Ferdinand de las Gracia
(d) Antonio Christopher Bellan

13. What did Hatuey do with the gold?
(a) Hid it in the mountains
(b) Threw it in the river
(c) Buried it
(d) Paid off the Spaniards

14. The Spanish said that for every one Spaniard who died, how many natives would be killed?
(a) 100
(b) 5
(c) 10
(d) 1,000

15. Where were the slaves sent?
(a) Columbia and England
(b) Cuba and Bahamas
(c) Spain and France
(d) Panama and Peru

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The area experienced a shortage of what food?

3. New Spain was founded in what year?

4. What did the Spanish force Montezuma to tell the citizens?

5. What did the Spanish do to the nobles and leaders?

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