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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Contemporary Structure of Plunder.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the environmental problems with many of Latin America's cash crops?
(a) Coffee, sugarcane, and cotton are primarily consumed by the farmers.
(b) Many of the cash crops are eaten by animals.
(c) Coffee, sugarcane, and cotton all require mass deforestation.
(d) Many of the cash crops are failing and leaving large swaths of empty land.

2. What are the origins of the Indian women's style of dress?
(a) The styles were imposed in modern times by a fascist government.
(b) The styles were passed down through generations of native women.
(c) The styles were copied from peasant woman in Spain and imposed by Charles III.
(d) The styles were popularized by the Spanish nobility and worn by the natives as cast-offs.

3. How much of the native population of Latin American died of diseases contracted from the invaders?
(a) One-third of the population died.
(b) Only ten people died.
(c) One-sixteenth of the population died.
(d) Over half of the population died.

4. What Hapsburg King of Spain was obsessed with religious wars, draining Spain's coffers and exploited Latin America?
(a) Louis XI.
(b) Ferdinand of Aragon.
(c) Henry VIII.
(d) Charles V.

5. What year did Brazil abolish slavery?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1701.

Short Answer Questions

1. What labor force did the author eyewitness?

2. How were the rubber workers in Brazil paid?

3. What states, originally belonging to Mexico, did the USA claim?

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

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

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