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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. What was the original purpose of the expedition?
(a) Find a passage through to Africa
(b) Convert the native people to Christianity
(c) Find gold
(d) Claim the land for Spanish purposes

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

3. Who tried to intervene when the Spanish captured Hatuey?
(a) A Spanish commander
(b) Queen Isabella
(c) A Franciscan Friar
(d) His wife

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Spaniards do to Queen Huguanama?

2. What did the Spanish in Cuzcatlan make the slaves eat?

3. What did the Spaniards make the captives eat?

4. Once removed from the region, what did the slaves die from?

5. Who was the strongest of all the kings?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were German merchants given control of the slave trade in Venezuela? What effect did this have?

2. What is the province of Santa Marta known as today? Why did the Spanish go to this province?

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

4. Did the peace last in the village? Why or why not?

5. What happened in the kingdoms of Marien and Maguana? Give examples from the book. What were these kingdoms known for?

6. What does de las Casas attribute the violence to? Why did he think the Spanish acted as they did?

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

8. Who arrived on the island of Trinidad in 1516? How did he kill the natives on the island?

9. What was the purpose of the expeditions? Was this purpose accomplished? Why or why not?

10. Who confronted Bono? What reply did Bono give?

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