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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tales of Premature Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What region is the world's top coffee producer?
(a) Asia.
(b) Africa.
(c) Latin America.
(d) Australia.

2. Who was the nitrate King?
(a) Bruce Palmer.
(b) Fidel Castro.
(c) Jose Manuel Balmaceda.
(d) John Thomas North.

3. Though the Indians of Latin American had a population of 70 million before foreign invasion, how many remained after 150 years?
(a) 50 million.
(b) 3.5 million.
(c) 15 million.
(d) None.

4. What mineral, almost absent in the USA, is necessary to make aluminum?
(a) Iron.
(b) Bauxite.
(c) Neon.
(d) Hydrogen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Colombia paid for the erection of the Panama Canal?

2. What is expropriation?

3. How did American interests in Venezuelan crude oil attempt to derail the Brazilian crude oil economy?

4. What was President Jose Manuel Balmaceda's goal for Chile?

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

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