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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lust for Gold, Lust for Silver.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For whom did Montezuma mistake the invading Europeans?
(a) For the god Tenochtitlan.
(b) For King Ferdinand himself.
(c) For the god Quetzalcoatl.
(d) For his enemies in the south.

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

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

4. Who was Tupac Amaru?
(a) He was a Mayan chief who led the people out of occupied 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 mestizo chief and a descendant of the Incas who led a rebellion in Cuzco.

5. Without its acquisition of Brazilian gold from Portugal, what major conflict would England surely have lost?
(a) The Napoleonic War.
(b) The Hundred Years' War.
(c) The American Revolutionary War.
(d) The Spanish War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Aleijadinho?

2. What did the Treaty of Tordesillas accomplish?

3. What is expropriation?

4. How much of the native population of Latin American died of diseases contracted from the invaders?

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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