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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 rationalization was used by the conquerors who enslaved the native populations?
(a) They would share the wealth with the Indians eventually.
(b) They denied that Indians had souls, and therefore were no better than beasts of burden.
(c) They declared the Indians owed them labor because of their defeat in the war.
(d) They claimed the Indians enjoyed the work.

2. For whom did Montezuma mistake the invading Europeans?
(a) For his enemies in the south.
(b) For the god Quetzalcoatl.
(c) For the god Tenochtitlan.
(d) For King Ferdinand himself.

3. What Spanish city was reconquered in 1492 under the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella?
(a) Madrid.
(b) Barcelona.
(c) Salamanca.
(d) Granada.

4. What country basically owns the Central American banana industry?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Portugal.
(c) The USA.
(d) Spain.

5. Who was Aleijadinho?
(a) The governor of Minas Gerais.
(b) A Brazilian slave who worked in the diamond mines.
(c) A Portuguese merchant who exported gold from Brazil.
(d) One of the greatest artists in Brazil's history, nicknamed "Little Cripple."

Short Answer Questions

1. In Haiti, what does the rainbow symbolize?

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

3. What law did Juan Domingo Peron impose in Argentina in compliance with minimum wage?

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

5. What did Haitians do to avoid forced labor in the mines?

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