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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. Without its acquisition of Brazilian gold from Portugal, what major conflict would England surely have lost?
(a) The Napoleonic War.
(b) The Hundred Years' War.
(c) The American Revolutionary War.
(d) The Spanish War.

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) 25%.
(b) 0.5%
(c) 10%.
(d) 5%.

3. Who was William Walker?
(a) He was a US historian who sought to tell the truth about the history of Latin America.
(b) He was a British explorer who ventured deep into the Amazon.
(c) He was a Haitian revolutionary who led a rebellion against landowners.
(d) He was a US assassin who made his way through Central America, eventually taking Panama for the Panama Canal.

4. After the war between Bolivia and Paraguay, who eventually claimed the land Paraguay won in the conflict?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Argentina.
(c) The USA.
(d) Bolivia.

5. What Aztec innovation in Mexico City is still visited by tourists today?
(a) The floating gardens.
(b) The great sundial.
(c) The pyramids of Cairo.
(d) The golden mask.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rationalization was used by the conquerors who enslaved the native populations?

2. Out of the 70,000 Guatemalans that die each year, how many are children?

3. What region is the world's top coffee producer?

4. What analogy does Paul Baran use to explain the division of labor with the arrival of capitalism?

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

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