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

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

Eduardo Galeano
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Seven Years After.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What Spanish conquistador defeated the great Tenochtitlan?
(a) Pizarro.
(b) Marco Polo.
(c) Cortes.
(d) Columbus.

3. In what year did General Velasco Alvarado, social and economic reformist, die?
(a) 1792.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1654.

4. In Uruguay, how many workers died in the railway gelignite explosion of 1977?
(a) 7.
(b) None.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Columbus witness on his first voyage, while passing Tenerife?

2. Who was the person to coin the phrase "knowledge is power"?

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

4. What was President Jose Manuel Balmaceda's goal for Chile?

5. Which country has the best chance of establishing a Common Market of Latin America?

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