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

2. What is the most universal health problem in Latin America?
(a) Infectious disease.
(b) Poor eyesight.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Malnutrition.

3. Who was Augusto Cesar Sandino?
(a) He was a Salvadoran coffee plantation owner.
(b) He was a Nicaraguan guerilla who fought for the peasant's land rights.
(c) He was a Mexican peasant who became President of Mexico.
(d) He was a Brazilian revolutionary famous for standing up to the government.

4. What was the key to success in the sugar industry?
(a) Imported European workers.
(b) Slave traffic.
(c) Plows.
(d) Temperate climate.

5. Who usually financed the conquistadors' expeditions?
(a) England's monarch.
(b) Businessmen or the conquistadors themselves.
(c) The native peoples of the New World.
(d) The state or government.

Short Answer Questions

1. What great mathematical principle did the Mayans discover before any other people in history?

2. Why was Juan Jose Arevalo's government overthrown by Rodolfo Armas, backed by the USA?

3. Who was Miguel Hidalgo?

4. What year did Brazil abolish slavery?

5. Though the Indians of Latin American had a population of 70 million before foreign invasion, how many remained after 150 years?

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