View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lust for Gold, Lust for Silver.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What resources caused the boom of the Minas Gerais region?
(a) Tin and iron.
(b) Silver and crystal.
(c) Gold and diamonds.
(d) Oil and water.

2. What resource was at the center of the city of Potosi's prosperity?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Salt.
(c) Gold.
(d) Silver.

3. For whom did Montezuma mistake the invading Europeans?
(a) For his enemies in the south.
(b) For King Ferdinand himself.
(c) For the god Quetzalcoatl.
(d) For the god Tenochtitlan.

4. Without its acquisition of Brazilian gold from Portugal, what major conflict would England surely have lost?
(a) The Napoleonic War.
(b) The Spanish War.
(c) The American Revolutionary War.
(d) The Hundred Years' War.

5. What year did Columbus "discover" America?
(a) 1329.
(b) 1542.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1492.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Aleijadinho?

2. Where did Columbus think he had landed, even during his third voyage?

3. What great mathematical principle did the Mayans discover before any other people in history?

4. What analogy does Paul Baran use to explain the division of labor with the arrival of capitalism?

5. Who was Miguel Hidalgo?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 314 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample