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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. How much of the native population of Latin American died of diseases contracted from the invaders?
(a) One-sixteenth of the population died.
(b) One-third of the population died.
(c) Over half of the population died.
(d) Only ten people died.

2. Who was Aleijadinho?
(a) One of the greatest artists in Brazil's history, nicknamed "Little Cripple."
(b) A Brazilian slave who worked in the diamond mines.
(c) A Portuguese merchant who exported gold from Brazil.
(d) The governor of Minas Gerais.

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

4. What was the great Aztec capital city?
(a) Quetzalcoatl.
(b) Virachoca.
(c) Tenochtitlan.
(d) Montezuma.

5. What Spanish city was reconquered in 1492 under the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella?
(a) Madrid.
(b) Salamanca.
(c) Barcelona.
(d) Granada.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Without its acquisition of Brazilian gold from Portugal, what major conflict would England surely have lost?

4. What did Andre Gunder Frank discover upon analyzing the history of Latin America's "metropolis-satellite" relationships?

5. What resources caused the boom of the Minas Gerais region?

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