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

2. What states, originally belonging to Mexico, did the USA claim?
(a) Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut.
(b) Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida.
(c) Texas, California, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada.
(d) Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky.

3. About how much of the price yielded by coffee going from Colombia to the US goes into the wages of the coffee workers?
(a) 5%.
(b) 0.5%
(c) 10%.
(d) 25%.

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

5. If slaves arrived in the colony and were too ill to work, what happened to them?
(a) They were taken to the plantation anyway.
(b) They were sent back to Africa to recover.
(c) They were left on the ship's deck to die.
(d) They were put in a hospital to recover.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what purpose, according to Bernal Diaz del Castillo, did the Spanish come to Mexico?

3. What was the great Aztec capital city?

4. What was the key to success in the sugar industry?

5. What year did Brazil abolish slavery?

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