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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 guano?
(a) Bird excrement.
(b) A specific type of poncho.
(c) A traditional delicacy.
(d) Brazilian currency.

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

3. If slaves arrived in the colony and were too ill to work, what happened to them?
(a) They were put in a hospital to recover.
(b) They were taken to the plantation anyway.
(c) They were left on the ship's deck to die.
(d) They were sent back to Africa to recover.

4. What do coffee and petroleum have in common?
(a) They are each rapidly falling in price and usefulness.
(b) They are each dark in color and used all over the world.
(c) They each foster higher profits for the consuming country than for the producing country.
(d) They each need very particular growing conditions.

5. What Hapsburg King of Spain was obsessed with religious wars, draining Spain's coffers and exploited Latin America?
(a) Henry VIII.
(b) Louis XI.
(c) Charles V.
(d) Ferdinand of Aragon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which countries were involved in the War of the Pacific, 1879?

3. What is silicosis?

4. What states, originally belonging to Mexico, did the USA claim?

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

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