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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. In Haiti, what does the rainbow symbolize?
(a) The rainbow symbolizes the victory in the Haitian Civil War.
(b) The rainbow symbolizes the largest sugar harvest on record anywhere in the world.
(c) The rainbow symbolizes the European ships that came to take the Africans to Haiti so long ago.
(d) The rainbow symbolizes slaves who escaped to the west side of the island and reconstructed their African way of life.

2. Where did Columbus think he had landed, even during his third voyage?
(a) He thought he was off the coast of Venezuela.
(b) He thought he was off the coast of Hawaii.
(c) He thought he was off the coast of Africa.
(d) He thought he was off the coast of Asia.

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

4. What region is the world's top coffee producer?
(a) Latin America.
(b) Asia.
(c) Africa.
(d) Australia.

5. What do coffee and petroleum have in common?
(a) They are each dark in color and used all over the world.
(b) They are each rapidly falling in price and usefulness.
(c) They each need very particular growing conditions.
(d) They each foster higher profits for the consuming country than for the producing country.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Miguel Hidalgo?

2. Who was Aleijadinho?

3. What resource is exploited in modern-day Potosi?

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

5. Though the Indians of Latin American had a population of 70 million before foreign invasion, how many remained after 150 years?

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