Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Eduardo Galeano
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Eduardo Galeano
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through King Sugar and Other Agricultural Monarchs.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year did Columbus "discover" America?
(a) 1329.
(b) 1542.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1492.

2. What are the environmental problems with many of Latin America's cash crops?
(a) Coffee, sugarcane, and cotton are primarily consumed by the farmers.
(b) Many of the cash crops are eaten by animals.
(c) Coffee, sugarcane, and cotton all require mass deforestation.
(d) Many of the cash crops are failing and leaving large swaths of empty land.

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

4. What country basically owns the Central American banana industry?
(a) Portugal.
(b) The USA.
(c) Spain.
(d) Brazil.

5. What was Colombia paid for the erection of the Panama Canal?
(a) 25 million dollars.
(b) 5 million dollars.
(c) 10 million dollars.
(d) 50 million dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were the rubber workers in Brazil paid?

2. What do coffee and petroleum have in common?

3. What was the key to success in the sugar industry?

4. Without its acquisition of Brazilian gold from Portugal, what major conflict would England surely have lost?

5. After the war between Bolivia and Paraguay, who eventually claimed the land Paraguay won in the conflict?

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