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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tales of Premature Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What resource is exploited in modern-day Potosi?
(a) Silver.
(b) Tin.
(c) Diamonds.
(d) Gold.

2. To what does the author compare Latin America's capacity for surprise?
(a) Guerilla warfare.
(b) Fool's gold.
(c) A jack-in-the-box.
(d) Pandora's box.

3. What country basically owns the Central American banana industry?
(a) The USA.
(b) Portugal.
(c) Spain.
(d) Brazil.

4. How did the USA attempt to curtail Brazil's petroleum trade?
(a) They declared war and took all the oil fields.
(b) They provided oil to rival countries.
(c) They asked Brazil nicely not to sell to anyone else.
(d) They gave Brazilian oil a grade "C."

5. What area's maps were given to private concerns with the aid of a US government geological survey?
(a) Bolivia.
(b) Uruguay.
(c) Amazonia.
(d) The Andes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is silicosis?

2. How were the rubber workers in Brazil paid?

3. What great innovations did the sugar slave trade directly fund?

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

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

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