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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 great mathematical principle did the Mayans discover before any other people in history?
(a) General relativity.
(b) The concept of zero.
(c) The circumference of the earth.
(d) Pi.

2. Who was William Walker?
(a) He was a US historian who sought to tell the truth about the history of Latin America.
(b) He was a Haitian revolutionary who led a rebellion against landowners.
(c) He was a US assassin who made his way through Central America, eventually taking Panama for the Panama Canal.
(d) He was a British explorer who ventured deep into the Amazon.

3. After the war between Bolivia and Paraguay, who eventually claimed the land Paraguay won in the conflict?
(a) Argentina.
(b) The USA.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Bolivia.

4. What was the great Aztec capital city?
(a) Quetzalcoatl.
(b) Tenochtitlan.
(c) Montezuma.
(d) Virachoca.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom did Montezuma mistake the invading Europeans?

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

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

4. What was Colombia paid for the erection of the Panama Canal?

5. What year was Artigas's agrarian reform--"free land, free man," instituted?

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