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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. Which countries were involved in the War of the Pacific, 1879?
(a) Venezuela, Ecuador, and Paraguay.
(b) Haiti, Guatemala, and Nicaragua,
(c) Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.
(d) Bolivia, Peru, and Chile.

2. How did American interests in Venezuelan crude oil attempt to derail the Brazilian crude oil economy?
(a) They created a conflict with the Brazilian government.
(b) They rated Brazilian crude oil a "C".
(c) They attempted a blockade of the Brazilian coastline.
(d) They tried to blackmail the USSR into only using Venezuelan oil.

3. How, in the 1800s, did Britain pay for most of its Latin American goods?
(a) It paid with carbonate.
(b) It paid with gold.
(c) It paid with silver.
(d) It paid with textiles.

4. 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.

5. In Haiti, what does the rainbow symbolize?
(a) The rainbow symbolizes the largest sugar harvest on record anywhere in the world.
(b) The rainbow symbolizes slaves who escaped to the west side of the island and reconstructed their African way of life.
(c) The rainbow symbolizes the victory in the Haitian Civil War.
(d) The rainbow symbolizes the European ships that came to take the Africans to Haiti so long ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was Artigas's agrarian reform--"free land, free man," instituted?

2. What is the world's chief fuel?

3. Who was Tupac Amaru?

4. What is a tojo?

5. Where is the copper in Chile located?

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