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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. About how much of the price yielded by coffee going from Colombia to the US goes into the wages of the coffee workers?
(a) 10%.
(b) 5%.
(c) 0.5%
(d) 25%.

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

3. What nickname does the author give the USA?
(a) The great consumer.
(b) The end of iron.
(c) The vast unknowable.
(d) The world policeman.

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

5. What item(s), smuggled out of Brazil, costs the country about $100 million a year?
(a) Water.
(b) Diamonds.
(c) Gold.
(d) Sheep.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did John Thomas North "support" the War of the Pacific?

2. What was the key to success in the sugar industry?

3. What is the great natural resource of Lake Maracaibo?

4. Who was Aleijadinho?

5. For what industry is the USA most dependent on foreign imports?

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