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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 was the key to success in the sugar industry?
(a) Slave traffic.
(b) Temperate climate.
(c) Plows.
(d) Imported European workers.

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

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

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

5. What year was Artigas's agrarian reform--"free land, free man," instituted?
(a) 1815.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1874.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must the USA purchase so many of its minerals abroad?

2. What area of Latin America was specifically photographed by a US geological survey?

3. Why does the author feel that the USA was not plundered like Latin America?

4. What country basically owns the Central American banana industry?

5. Where did Columbus think he had landed, even during his third voyage?

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