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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. Because of a deal with the USA, in how many years may Brazil run out of manganese for its own steel industry?
(a) 15.
(b) 25.
(c) 100.
(d) 5.

2. What law did Juan Domingo Peron impose in Argentina in compliance with minimum wage?
(a) The Statute of the Peon.
(b) The Agrarian Revolution.
(c) The Latafundios Abolition Act.
(d) The Agricultural Division Act.

3. What Brazilian mineral deposit is essential to the steel industry?
(a) Silver.
(b) Guano.
(c) Oil.
(d) Manganese.

4. What caused the Chilean nitrate business to collapse?
(a) The perfection of the Haber process.
(b) The war with Britain.
(c) The flood of 1923.
(d) The exhaustion of guano.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was William Walker?

2. What item(s), smuggled out of Brazil, costs the country about $100 million a year?

3. What did the Treaty of Tordesillas accomplish?

4. To what purpose, according to Bernal Diaz del Castillo, did the Spanish come to Mexico?

5. About how much of the price yielded by coffee going from Colombia to the US goes into the wages of the coffee workers?

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