WorksheetsGonsalvo Monroy
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 5mins
King Alfonso of Castille sold Malta for thirty thousand fiorints (money of the time).
True
False
Which was the rich man that bought the Maltese islands in 1425?
Gonsalvo Cardona
Gonsalvo Monroy
Antonio Cardona
Gonsalvo Monroy was known to be...
Kind and charitable
poor and old
rich and greedy
greedy and cruel-hearted miser
To earn back the money he spent on Malta and Gozo and to become more richer he..
sold slaves
made a lot of taxes
sold houses
The Maltese were happy under the rule of Gonsalvo Monroy.
True
False
The Maltese leaders went to __________________ to the king and pleaded with him to take the Maltese Islands in his hands again.
Sicily
Italy
Spain
In bad times the Maltese sold their clothes, jewellery, fruits, animals and land to collect the money.
True
False
With the money they could regain their ____________________.
wealth
freedom
status
The Gozitan writer Ninu Cremona wrote a novel based on this story named
Il-Fidwa tal-Bdiewa
True
False
