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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. What is the world's chief fuel?
(a) Iron.
(b) Copper.
(c) Water.
(d) Petroleum.

2. What did Haitians do to avoid forced labor in the mines?
(a) They committed mass suicide.
(b) They ran away and resettled.
(c) They rebelled and drove the Spaniards away.
(d) They poisoned the Spanish in great numbers.

3. What caused the Chilean nitrate business to collapse?
(a) The exhaustion of guano.
(b) The perfection of the Haber process.
(c) The flood of 1923.
(d) The war with Britain.

4. In the 1890s, Chile's dependence on Great Britain was comparable to what other colonized country?
(a) India.
(b) Morocco.
(c) Australia.
(d) China.

5. Who was Miguel Hidalgo?
(a) He was a Mexican priest who led a rebellion, attempted to regain the Indian's ancient lands and incite social change.
(b) He was a Spanish writer who, at great risk to himself, published a treatise on the conqueror's crimes.
(c) He was a Spanish merchant who shamelessly exploited the native people.
(d) He was an Aztec leader who united Indian groups and marched on Mexico City.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Spanish conquistador defeated the great Tenochtitlan?

2. In which country did Emilian Zapata introduce radical agrarian reform?

3. What practice have Protestant church missionaries encouraged to Amazonian peoples?

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

5. Because of a deal with the USA, in how many years may Brazil run out of manganese for its own steel industry?

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