Review Questions from Explorers

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Review Questions from Explorers

• Updated Nov 2010

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Questions-First explores of TX

• Update Nov 2010

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Don Juan de Onate is important to Texas history
because

• brought Spanish horse to Texas
• established the first Thanksgiving feast in the
  New World.
• brought back much gold and silver.
• founded the first European settlement in Texas.

d. founded the first European settlement in Texas.
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Who was the Aztec leader?

• Quetzalcoatl
• Montezuma
• Cabeza de Vaca
• La Toma

b. Montezuma
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From your timeline, who was the first Spaniard to
sail the coastline of Texas?

• Alonzo de Pineda
• Balboa
• Cabeza de Vaca
• Coronado

a. Alonzo de Pineda
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Tenochtitlan is what city today?

• Mexico City.
• Veracruz
• Monterey
• Cancun

a. Mexico City.
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What mistake did Montezuma make?

• He gave women to the soldiers.
• He promised to make the men gods.
• tried to buy off the army with gold, silver, and
  gems.
• Showed the soldiers his army-strength and
  weaknesses

c. tried to buy off the army with gold, silver,
and gems.
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All were reasons the Spanish conquered the Aztecs
EXCEPT

• deadly smallpox virus had killed many of the
  Aztec people.
• Spanish had modern weapons
• Spanish had horses
• All helped to conquer the Aztecs

a.14,000
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The conquistador who invaded the Aztec empire

• La Salle
• de Pineda
• Coronado
• Cortéz

d. Cortéz
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Quiz Early Explorers
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What below from the exploits of Cabeza de Vaca
led other to explore TX?

• describe Tx land as being fertile.
• Natives were general friendly.
• Tx could be part of greater Spain
• brought back word of Seven cities of Gold.

d. brought back word of Seven cities of Gold.
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What below help Cabeza de Vaca survive?

• claimed to be a shaman.
• claimed to be a member of royalty.
• claimed to be an explorer.
• claimed to be a god.

a. Claimed to be a shaman
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What did Cabeza de Vaca call Galveston?

• Paradise
• Malhado island of Misfortune
• Land of milk and honey
• Cibola

b. Malhado island of Misfortune
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On what island was Cabeza de Vaca shipwrecked?

• Padre Island
• Galveston Island
• Matagorda Island
• Tiki Island

b. Galveston Island
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• Cattle farmers
• Herds of buffalo
• How native people made shoes
• The mouth of the Rio Grande

• B. Herds of buffalo

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Quiz Spanish Explorers

• Updated Nov.2010

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The first Aztecs welcomed Cortés because they
thought he was

• the King of Spain.
• a French explorer.
• a Pawnee chief.
• the god Quetzalcoatl.

d. the god Quetzalcoatl.
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Cabeza de Vaca described Texas as being

• a barren desert.
• wet and swampy.
• cold and ugly.
• very fertile.

d. very fertile.
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The first European to explore the Texas coast

• La Salle
• de Pineda
• Coronado
• Marcos

b. de Pineda
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The conquistador who invaded the Aztec empire

• La Salle
• de Pineda
• Coronado
• Cortéz

d. Cortéz
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A governor of a region who represents the monarch
is a

• conquistador.
• viceroy.
• friar.
• king or queen.

b. viceroy.
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Quiz Questions
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The Spanish were amazed by the cows of the
plains because

• the animals had no horns.
• Plains people raised them.
• the animals were so small.
• the herds were so large.

• D. the herds were so large.

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A village with connected, flat-roofed buildings
is called

• an adobe.
• a pineda.
• a mission.
• a pueblo.

d. a pueblo.
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Coronados troops often lost their way in North
Texas because

• the grass became erect after they walked upon it.
  
• they failed to leave signs as they went.
• the plains were so level that the sky appeared
  like a bowl.
• buffalo trampled their tracks.

• C. the plains were so level that the sky appeared
  like a bowl.

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The Spanish explorer who searched for Cibola or
Quivera was

• La Salle
• Coronado
• Cortés
• Pineda

b. Coronado
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The first explorer sent to check on stories of
Cíbola

• de Pineda
• Coronado
• Cortés
• Fray Marcos

d. Fray Marcos
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In 1609, Spaniards set up a permanent colony and
named it

• New Mexico.
• Colorado
• Arizona
• Malhado.

a. New Mexico.
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The tribe that killed Estevanico was the

• Aztecs.
• Zuñis.
• Pawnees.
• Wichitas.

b. Zuñis.
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An area supposedly rich with gold, silver and
precious gems was

• Tiguex.
• Veracruz.
• Cíbola.
• Santa Fe.

c. Cíbola.
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When Spanish explorers reached Cibola or Quivera,
they found

• a lost Spanish settlement.
• treasures of gold and silver.
• a poor Native American settlement.
• a French trading post.

c. a poor Native American settlement.
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Quiz Questions
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The Spanish were amazed by the cows of the
plains because

• the animals had no horns.
• Plains people raised them.
• the animals were so small.
• the herds were so large.

• D. the herds were so large.

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A village with connected, flat-roofed buildings
is called

• an adobe.
• a pineda.
• a mission.
• a pueblo.

d. a pueblo.
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Coronados troops often lost their way in North
Texas because

• the grass became erect after they walked upon it.
  
• they failed to leave signs as they went.
• the plains were so level that the sky appeared
  like a bowl.
• buffalo trampled their tracks.

• C. the plains were so level that the sky appeared
  like a bowl.

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The Spanish explorer who searched for Cibola or
Quivera was

• La Salle
• Coronado
• Cortés
• Pineda

b. Coronado
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The first explorer sent to check on stories of
Cíbola

• de Pineda
• Coronado
• Cortés
• Fray Marcos

d. Fray Marcos
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In 1609, Spaniards set up a permanent colony and
named it

• New Mexico.
• Colorado
• Arizona
• Malhado.

a. New Mexico.
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The tribe that killed Estevanico was the

• Aztecs.
• Zuñis.
• Pawnees.
• Wichitas.

b. Zuñis.
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An area supposedly rich with gold, silver and
precious gems was

• Tiguex.
• Veracruz.
• Cíbola.
• Santa Fe.

c. Cíbola.
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When Spanish explorers reached Cibola or Quivera,
they found

• a lost Spanish settlement.
• treasures of gold and silver.
• a poor Native American settlement.
• a French trading post.

c. a poor Native American settlement.
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Quiz-The Conquistadores Come to Tx
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An enclosure of posts made to form a defense

• stockade
• Malhado
• Tenochtitlan
• castle

a. stockade
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Island near present-day Galveston Cabeza de
Vaca named the isle of misfortune

• Cozumel
• Malhado
• Tenochtitlan
• Yucatan

b. Malhado
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A person belonging to one of the religious
brotherhoods of the Catholic Church

• viceroy
• friar
• Quetzalcoatl
• conquistador

a. viceroy
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Which one of the following was NOT a goal of the
Spanish in exploring the New World?

• to make their country more powerful
• to gain wealth for themselves
• to spread Christianity
• defeat the English

d. defeat the English
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At first, the Aztecs welcomed Hernan Cortes
because they thought he was

• the god Quetzalcoatl.
• a French explorer.
• a friendly trader.
• the king of Spain.

a. the god Quetzalcoatl.
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When Cabeza de Vaca became shipwrecked off the
coast of Galveston, he survived by

• building a stockade.
• adopting the ways of the Karankawas.
• using supplies from the ship.
• walking across Texas to the nearest mission.

b. adopting the ways of the Karankawas
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I am Spanish. I was put in charge of an
expedition to find seven cities of gold. Though I
found no gold, my men were the first to see the
Palo Duro and Grand Canyons. Who am I?

• Juan de Onate
• Antonio de Mendoza
• Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda
• Francisco Vazquez de Coronado

d. Francisco Vazquez de Coronado
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Led expedition in Southwest from 1640 to 1642
looking for Seven Cities of Cibola. I returned to
Mexico when mission failed .

• La Salle
• Coronado
• Estevanico
• Cabeza de Vaca

b. Coronado
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How did the Aztecs react when Cortez arrived at
Tenochtitlán?

1. They attacked his army and killed many men.
2. They hid their wealth from Cortez and his men.
3. They welcomed him, thinking he was an Aztec god.
4. They retreated to a safer location.

c. They welcomed him, thinking he was an Aztec
god.