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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 Lake Maracaibo?
(a) It is the great lake of Nicaragua.
(b) It is the favorite vacation spot of Brazil.
(c) It is the only source of freshwater in Argentina.
(d) It is a huge deposit of oil in Venezuela.

2. What company owns Brazilian iron?
(a) The Hanna Mining Corporation.
(b) Bethlehem Steel.
(c) Minas Gerais.
(d) IMF.

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

4. What did Mariano Melgarejo force a British ambassador to drink as punishment for sneering at the local chichas?
(a) A tub of stale beer.
(b) Water from the Amazon.
(c) A barrel of chocolate.
(d) A bottle of bad wine.

5. What important mine did Bolivia lose in the war?
(a) Buenos Aires, a guano mine.
(b) Chuquicamata, a copper mine.
(c) Quetzalcoatl, a tin mine.
(d) Las Ramblas, a silver mine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the significance of the land the USA purchased from Brazil?

2. Especially in Guatemala, what is the structure of the labor force visibly identified with?

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

4. Where is the copper in Chile located?

5. What are the environmental problems with many of Latin America's cash crops?

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