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Quiz for Primary Source 17.5: Mulatto Painting

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1. Which of these factors helps explain the growing mixed-race population of the Spanish Americas?

Europeans made up a larger percentage of the population of the Spanish Americas than they did in other parts of the New World.

The Catholic Church encouraged marriages between European men and indigenous or African women.

Europeans of Spanish descent had very little sense of racial difference or hierarchy.

European migrants to Spanish America were disproportionately male.

Correct. The answer is d. With very few European women available, European men often turned to indigenous or African women for sexual partners.

Incorrect. The answer is d. With very few European women available, European men often turned to indigenous or African women for sexual partners.

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2. Which of these trends is reflected in the painting?

The growing unwillingness of the Catholic Church to acknowledge mixed-race couples

The increase in the rate of family migration to the Spanish Americas in the eighteenth century

The gradual abolition of slavery in the Spanish Americas over the course of the eighteenth century

The tendency of masters in the Spanish Americas to acknowledge and free their mixed-race children

Correct. The answer is d. Unlike British North America where masters tended to leave their mixed-race progeny in slavery, masters in the Spanish Americas tended to acknowledge and free their mixed-race children, offering them support and advantages as they grew up.

Incorrect. The answer is d. Unlike British North America where masters tended to leave their mixed-race progeny in slavery, masters in the Spanish Americas tended to acknowledge and free their mixed-race children, offering them support and advantages as they grew up.