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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 Hapsburg King of Spain was obsessed with religious wars, draining Spain's coffers and exploited Latin America?
(a) Charles V.
(b) Louis XI.
(c) Ferdinand of Aragon.
(d) Henry VIII.

2. For what is guano used?
(a) As fertilizer.
(b) As medicine.
(c) As coolant.
(d) As decoration.

3. What resources caused the boom of the Minas Gerais region?
(a) Oil and water.
(b) Silver and crystal.
(c) Tin and iron.
(d) Gold and diamonds.

4. What is Lake Maracaibo?
(a) It is the favorite vacation spot of Brazil.
(b) It is a huge deposit of oil in Venezuela.
(c) It is the only source of freshwater in Argentina.
(d) It is the great lake of Nicaragua.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first Latin American country to install an oil refinery?

2. How much silver was retained in the Spanish economy from 1540-1550?

3. What replaced nitrates as the pillar of Chile's economy?

4. What item(s), smuggled out of Brazil, costs the country about $100 million a year?

5. If slaves arrived in the colony and were too ill to work, what happened to them?

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