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

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

Eduardo Galeano
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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. What is expropriation?
(a) It is the tithe the Indians are expected to pay the government.
(b) It is the separation of the native peoples from the main population.
(c) It is the Indian's policies of attacking government outposts relentlessly.
(d) It is the government's practice of usurping the Indians and claiming their lands.

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

3. What rationalization was used by the conquerors who enslaved the native populations?
(a) They claimed the Indians enjoyed the work.
(b) They denied that Indians had souls, and therefore were no better than beasts of burden.
(c) They declared the Indians owed them labor because of their defeat in the war.
(d) They would share the wealth with the Indians eventually.

4. What famous saying was associated with Guanajuato?
(a) "A stitch in time saves nine."
(b) "Father a merchant, son a gentleman, grandson a beggar."
(c) "A city of wisdom."
(d) "Gold and silver to be had, for a price."

5. What great mathematical principle did the Mayans discover before any other people in history?
(a) The concept of zero.
(b) General relativity.
(c) The circumference of the earth.
(d) Pi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Miguel Hidalgo?

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

3. For whom did Montezuma mistake the invading Europeans?

4. What resource is exploited in modern-day Potosi?

5. What did Haitians do to avoid forced labor in the mines?

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