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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who usually financed the conquistadors' expeditions?
(a) England's monarch.
(b) Businessmen or the conquistadors themselves.
(c) The state or government.
(d) The native peoples of the New World.

2. What are the origins of the Indian women's style of dress?
(a) The styles were copied from peasant woman in Spain and imposed by Charles III.
(b) The styles were passed down through generations of native women.
(c) The styles were imposed in modern times by a fascist government.
(d) The styles were popularized by the Spanish nobility and worn by the natives as cast-offs.

3. What is expropriation?
(a) It is the government's practice of usurping the Indians and claiming their lands.
(b) It is the Indian's policies of attacking government outposts relentlessly.
(c) It is the tithe the Indians are expected to pay the government.
(d) It is the separation of the native peoples from the main population.

4. Where did Columbus think he had landed, even during his third voyage?
(a) He thought he was off the coast of Africa.
(b) He thought he was off the coast of Hawaii.
(c) He thought he was off the coast of Venezuela.
(d) He thought he was off the coast of Asia.

5. What analogy does Paul Baran use to explain the division of labor with the arrival of capitalism?
(a) The priest and his congregation.
(b) The actor and the audience.
(c) The horseman and the horse.
(d) The mother and the son.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Treaty of Tordesillas accomplish?

2. Who was Tupac Amaru?

3. What year did Columbus "discover" America?

4. What Hapsburg King of Spain was obsessed with religious wars, draining Spain's coffers and exploited Latin America?

5. What Spanish conquistador defeated the great Tenochtitlan?

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