Worksheets"A Treasure Hunt" Reading Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 14mins
Which areas did the conquistadors explore?
Coast of California
Mexico, Florida, and the Caribbean islands
Gulf of Mexico and South America
All of these
Who told the legend of the Seven Cities of Cíbola?
Francisco Coronado
Hernán Cortés
Cabeza de Vaca
Christopher Columbus
In what year did Coronado send a group to find the Seven Cities of Cíbola?
1520
1539
1545
1552
What did Estevan see that made him think he found Cíbola?
A city made of gold
A Native American town with golden walls
A large river
A mountain of silver
What were the villages made of that Coronado's expedition found?
Stone and marble
Wood and straw
Mud and clay
Gold and silver
The conquistadors were from __________.
Spain
Florida
California
Mexico
In __________, Coronado led an expedition back to the village that Fray Marcos and Estevan discovered.
1540
1492
1776
1865
Soldiers from Coronado’s expedition found __________.
the Mississippi River
Mount Rushmore
the Grand Canyon
Niagara Falls
According to the map, what are two present-day states that Coronado traveled through?
Texas and New Mexico
California and Nevada
Arizona and Utah
Florida and Georgia
On this map, the country of SPAIN is which color?
Green
Blue
Orange
Red
Coronado heard a legend about the Seven Cities of Cíbola.
True
False
Not mentioned
Partially true
The Native Americans killed Estevan.
True
False
Not mentioned
Partially true
Soldiers from ________'s expedition found the Grand Canyon.
Coronado
Fray Marcos
Cabeza de Vaca
Estevan
Conquistadors is a Spanish word meaning:
to entrust
to connect
court
conquerors
What were the Spanish looking for when they landed on the Caribbean coast in 1532?
the Inca god
their boat
fountain of youth
gold
