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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through he Invisible Sources of Power.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Juan Vicente Gomez?
(a) The President of Brazilian.
(b) The ambassador of Ecuador to Britain.
(c) The Bolivian revolutionary.
(d) The king of Venezuelan oil.

2. What Aztec innovation in Mexico City is still visited by tourists today?
(a) The pyramids of Cairo.
(b) The great sundial.
(c) The floating gardens.
(d) The golden mask.

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

4. What analogy does Paul Baran use to explain the division of labor with the arrival of capitalism?
(a) The horseman and the horse.
(b) The priest and his congregation.
(c) The actor and the audience.
(d) The mother and the son.

5. How did Asia acquire rubber tree seeds?
(a) The trees were discovered deep in the forest.
(b) Henry Wickham smuggled seeds out of Brazil.
(c) Christopher Columbus took seeds back for Ferdinand and Isabella.
(d) Chinese merchants came to Brazil and took the seeds back.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the origins of the Indian women's style of dress?

2. Who usually financed the conquistadors' expeditions?

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

4. What rationalization was used by the conquerors who enslaved the native populations?

5. What was Colombia paid for the erection of the Panama Canal?

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