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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. Why does the author feel that the USA was not plundered like Latin America?
(a) The USA struck a deal with its potential conquerors.
(b) The USA initially did not have natural resources attractive to the international market.
(c) The USA had the firepower and manpower to fight back.
(d) The USA was settled a long time after Latin America was settled.

2. Who was Aleijadinho?
(a) A Portuguese merchant who exported gold from Brazil.
(b) The governor of Minas Gerais.
(c) One of the greatest artists in Brazil's history, nicknamed "Little Cripple."
(d) A Brazilian slave who worked in the diamond mines.

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) 0.5%
(b) 10%.
(c) 5%.
(d) 25%.

4. For whom did Montezuma mistake the invading Europeans?
(a) For the god Tenochtitlan.
(b) For the god Quetzalcoatl.
(c) For King Ferdinand himself.
(d) For his enemies in the south.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the origins of the Indian women's style of dress?

2. Out of the 70,000 Guatemalans that die each year, how many are children?

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

4. What did Columbus witness on his first voyage, while passing Tenerife?

5. What did the Treaty of Tordesillas accomplish?

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