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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 is expropriation?
(a) It is the Indian's policies of attacking government outposts relentlessly.
(b) It is the separation of the native peoples from the main population.
(c) It is the tithe the Indians are expected to pay the government.
(d) It is the government's practice of usurping the Indians and claiming their lands.

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

3. What was guano used for in Europe?
(a) Clothing blends.
(b) Fertilizer.
(c) Currency.
(d) Medicine.

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

5. Who was William Walker?
(a) He was a US historian who sought to tell the truth about the history of Latin America.
(b) He was a British explorer who ventured deep into the Amazon.
(c) He was a US assassin who made his way through Central America, eventually taking Panama for the Panama Canal.
(d) He was a Haitian revolutionary who led a rebellion against landowners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What company owns Brazilian iron?

2. How long did it take to squander the nitrate deposits in Peru?

3. What did Mariano Melgarejo force a British ambassador to drink as punishment for sneering at the local chichas?

4. Because of a deal with the USA, in how many years may Brazil run out of manganese for its own steel industry?

5. Who was Miguel Hidalgo?

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