In the following exercise, you will hear thirteen questions about the information contained in the lecture. You are to select from the choices (a), (b), (c), or (d) the correct answer to the question you have heard.
1.
5.
(a)
1403 and 1420
(a)
He gathered together many Indian allies.
(b)
1423 and 1440
(b)
He prepared for war with the Spanish.
(c)
1443 and 1520
(c)
He asked for the advice of La Malinche.
(d)
none of the above
(d)
He allowed the Spaniards to approach his capital.
2.
6.
in
(a)
30,000
(a)
September of 1518
(b)
60,000
(b)
November of 1519
(c)
330,000
(c)
June of 1520
(d)
none of the above
(d)
August of 1521
3.
7.
in
(a)
30,000
(a)
June, 1520
(b)
60,000
(b)
July, 1520
(c)
300,000
(c)
August, 1520
(d)
600,000
(d)
September, 1520
4.
8.
(a)
20 years
(a)
40,000
(b)
30 years
(b)
46,000
(c)
40 years
(c)
52,000
(d)
50 years
(d)
58,000
9.
12.
(a)
2 months
(a)
(b)
2½ months
(b)
70,000
(c)
3 months
(c)
70,553
(d)
3½ months
(d)
75,000
10.
13.
(a)
(a)
Montezuma's fear of the supernatural
(b)
(b)
the advanced weaponry of the Spaniards
(c)
5,003
(c)
the tool of political intrigue
(d)
5,553
(d)
all of the above
11.
(a)
He spoke both the Mayan and Aztec languages.
(b)
He was kind to the Indians he met.
(c)
The Aztecs were hated by their Indian neighbors.
(d)
all of the above
True-False statements
T = The statement is accurate according to the information presented in the lecture.
F – The statement is inaccurate according to the information presented in the lecture.
NG = The accuracy or inaccuracy of the statement cannot be determined from the information presented in the lecture.
____ In the fifteenth century the Aztecs built the most powerful empire ever known.
____ Guatemala was the southern border of the Aztec Empire in the fifteenth century.
____ The Aztecs were opposed to the concept of human sacrifice.
____ Indian prisoners of war were imprisoned somewhere in the pyramid-temples before they were sacrificed.
____ In the 1500s London had about 80 percent fewer people than the Aztec capital had.
____ Montezuma knew that the Spaniards were approaching his capital city long before they ever arrived there.
____ The Spaniards killed most of the Indians they met on their journey to the capital of Tenochtitlan.
____ The Aztecs were a dark-skinned, beardless people.
____ Quite erroneously Montezuma assumed that Cortes was the returning god Quetzalcoatl.
____ The Spaniards sent presents of gold and silver to Montezuma.
____ The Aztecs rebelled seventeen months after their emperor was imprisoned.
____ It is uncertain that Montezuma was killed by his own people.
____ Montezuma received excellent care during his imprisonment.
____ Military superiority benefited the cause of the Indians.
____ Montezuma had prepared for war as soon as he learned of Cortes's arrival in his kingdom.
____ The Aztecs had never seen guns before Cortes's arrival, but they had seen horses before.
____ Many of the non-Aztec Indians rejoiced at the fall of the Aztec Empire.
____ La Malinche spoke Aztec, Mayan, and undoubtedly, Spanish.
____ A small band of only 553 Europeans, alone and single-handedly, brought down the mighty Aztec Empire.
____ Tenochtitlan was rebuilt within fifty years of its total devastation.
