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

2. What analogy does Paul Baran use to explain the division of labor with the arrival of capitalism?
(a) The priest and his congregation.
(b) The actor and the audience.
(c) The mother and the son.
(d) The horseman and the horse.

3. Out of the 70,000 Guatemalans that die each year, how many are children?
(a) 30,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 45,000.
(d) 5,000.

4. What famous saying was associated with Guanajuato?
(a) "Father a merchant, son a gentleman, grandson a beggar."
(b) "Gold and silver to be had, for a price."
(c) "A city of wisdom."
(d) "A stitch in time saves nine."

5. From the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century, what peoples were the center of the slave trade?
(a) Irish.
(b) Australians.
(c) Africans.
(d) Chinese.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Miguel Hidalgo?

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

3. What resource was at the center of the city of Potosi's prosperity?

4. What region took over the rubber industry from Brazil in 1913?

5. In which country did Emilian Zapata introduce radical agrarian reform?

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