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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through King Sugar and Other Agricultural Monarchs.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What great innovations did the sugar slave trade directly fund?
(a) The invention of the automobile.
(b) The Spanish trade route.
(c) Britain's Great Western Railway.
(d) The Aztec Temples.

2. Though the Indians of Latin American had a population of 70 million before foreign invasion, how many remained after 150 years?
(a) 15 million.
(b) None.
(c) 50 million.
(d) 3.5 million.

3. Especially in Guatemala, what is the structure of the labor force visibly identified with?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Racism.
(c) Minifundios.
(d) Poverty.

4. What resources caused the boom of the Minas Gerais region?
(a) Tin and iron.
(b) Silver and crystal.
(c) Oil and water.
(d) Gold and diamonds.

5. Why was Juan Jose Arevalo's government overthrown by Rodolfo Armas, backed by the USA?
(a) Rodolfo Armas had plans for agrarian reform.
(b) Arevalo was rumored to be Communist.
(c) Rodolfo Armas was the rightful President.
(d) Arevalo was planning an invasion of the USA.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After the war between Bolivia and Paraguay, who eventually claimed the land Paraguay won in the conflict?

3. What year was Artigas's agrarian reform--"free land, free man," instituted?

4. What Hapsburg King of Spain was obsessed with religious wars, draining Spain's coffers and exploited Latin America?

5. If slaves arrived in the colony and were too ill to work, what happened to them?

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