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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. How long did it take to squander the nitrate deposits in Peru?
(a) Just a few years.
(b) Ten days.
(c) Exactly 10.5 years.
(d) Hundreds of years.

2. From the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century, what peoples were the center of the slave trade?
(a) Chinese.
(b) Irish.
(c) Australians.
(d) Africans.

3. What did the export of guano help stave off in Europe?
(a) Hunger.
(b) War.
(c) Annoyance.
(d) Disease.

4. Because of a deal with the USA, in how many years may Brazil run out of manganese for its own steel industry?
(a) 5.
(b) 15.
(c) 100.
(d) 25.

5. What country is the top petroleum exporter in the world (at the time the book was written)?
(a) Iran.
(b) Afghanistan.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Venezuela.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused the Chilean nitrate business to collapse?

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

3. What did the Treaty of Tordesillas accomplish?

4. To what purpose, according to Bernal Diaz del Castillo, did the Spanish come to Mexico?

5. What region took over the rubber industry from Brazil in 1913?

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