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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many children died while De Las Casas was in Cuba?
(a) 300,000
(b) 1,000
(c) 200
(d) 7,000

3. De las Casas argued that the Spanish had lost what, which made it possible for them to commit the injustices that they did?
(a) A fear of God
(b) Their humility
(c) Their arrogance
(d) A belief in themselves

4. The Spaniards said that they did everything in whose name?
(a) Columbus
(b) Christ
(c) The King
(d) The Queen

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which kingdom was run by a brother and sister?

2. On one occasion, 4000 natives carried loads. How many survived the ordeal?

3. Which kingdom had the best sugar and climate?

4. What happened if the natives obeyed the Spanish?

5. Where did Avila go in 1522 or 1523?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did de Soto treat the natives? Give specific examples from the book.

2. Where was the province of Cartagena located? What happened in this province when the Spanish arrived?

3. Where is the river Yuyapari located? How was it discovered?

4. Who traveled to Peru in 1531? What was he looking for? What happened in the first few towns?

5. What happened to the natives that first escaped the Spaniards? What did the Spaniards do when the natives killed one of the soldiers?

6. Why did some of the natives lose faith in the Dominicans? What did they do? How did the Dominicans feel about this?

7. What were the people in the mainland like? How did they change under the Spanish?

8. What happened between Pizzarro and King Atahualpa? How was Atahualpa killed?

9. How did the Guatemalans fight back against the Spanish? Were they successful? Why or why not?

10. Who arrived in 1514? What was this person like? What were his goals for the mainland?

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