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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 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) Many of the cash crops are failing and leaving large swaths of empty land.
(d) Coffee, sugarcane, and cotton all require mass deforestation.

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 Asia.
(d) He thought he was off the coast of Africa.

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

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

5. Though the Indians of Latin American had a population of 70 million before foreign invasion, how many remained after 150 years?
(a) 50 million.
(b) 15 million.
(c) 3.5 million.
(d) None.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who usually financed the conquistadors' expeditions?

2. For whom did Montezuma mistake the invading Europeans?

3. What did the Treaty of Tordesillas accomplish?

4. How were the rubber workers in Brazil paid?

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

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