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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through he Invisible Sources of Power.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. About how much of the price yielded by coffee going from Colombia to the US goes into the wages of the coffee workers?
(a) 5%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 0.5%
(d) 10%.

3. In which country did Emilian Zapata introduce radical agrarian reform?
(a) Central Honduras.
(b) Northern Brazil.
(c) Western Peru.
(d) Southen Mexico.

4. How did Asia acquire rubber tree seeds?
(a) Henry Wickham smuggled seeds out of Brazil.
(b) Chinese merchants came to Brazil and took the seeds back.
(c) The trees were discovered deep in the forest.
(d) Christopher Columbus took seeds back for Ferdinand and Isabella.

5. What did the Treaty of Tordesillas accomplish?
(a) It allowed Portugal to teach the Indians religion.
(b) It allowed Portugal to occupy certain Latin American territories.
(c) It granted protection to the Indians.
(d) It declared war on France for illegal occupation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do miners chew to counteract some effects of working in the tin mines?

2. What nickname does the author give the USA?

3. What states, originally belonging to Mexico, did the USA claim?

4. What did Mariano Melgarejo force a British ambassador to drink as punishment for sneering at the local chichas?

5. Why does the author feel that the USA was not plundered like Latin America?

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