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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Seven Years After.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the great natural resource of Lake Maracaibo?
(a) Silver.
(b) Tin.
(c) Oil.
(d) Bauxite.

3. What does Alcoa stand for?
(a) The Argentine Life Coalition of America.
(b) The Arbitrary Concerns of America.
(c) The Andean Living Confederates of America.
(d) The Aluminum Company of America.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What resource replaced nitrate as Chile's main export?

2. Who does the author think behaves as a world policeman?

3. What does IMF stand for?

4. What was the Chaco War of 1932-1935?

5. Why does Galeano claim to have written this book?

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