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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 Tupac Amaru?
(a) He was a Spanish general who conquered the natives in Cuzco.
(b) He was a Spanish soldier who defected to the natives.
(c) He was a mestizo chief and a descendant of the Incas who led a rebellion in Cuzco.
(d) He was a Mayan chief who led the people out of occupied Cuzco.

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

3. In Brazil, what was Law 56,570, passed on July 6, 1965?
(a) This law made divorce unlawful.
(b) This law reserved the petrochemical industry for the state.
(c) This law freed Brazil from all foreign debt.
(d) This law made gauchos legal servants of the state.

4. 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) 10%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 0.5%

5. What resource is exploited in modern-day Potosi?
(a) Diamonds.
(b) Silver.
(c) Tin.
(d) Gold.

Short Answer Questions

1. The bourgeois' attempt at creating national industry has had a short and low flight, like a __________.

2. What illegal practice drains Brazil of more than $100 million a year?

3. What was the great Aztec capital city?

4. Which two Latin American countries have the highest infant mortality rates?

5. How, in the 1800s, did Britain pay for most of its Latin American goods?

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