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

2. How did Asia acquire rubber tree seeds?
(a) Chinese merchants came to Brazil and took the seeds back.
(b) Christopher Columbus took seeds back for Ferdinand and Isabella.
(c) Henry Wickham smuggled seeds out of Brazil.
(d) The trees were discovered deep in the forest.

3. In which country did Emilian Zapata introduce radical agrarian reform?
(a) Central Honduras.
(b) Northern Brazil.
(c) Southen Mexico.
(d) Western Peru.

4. Who was Augusto Cesar Sandino?
(a) He was a Brazilian revolutionary famous for standing up to the government.
(b) He was a Nicaraguan guerilla who fought for the peasant's land rights.
(c) He was a Mexican peasant who became President of Mexico.
(d) He was a Salvadoran coffee plantation owner.

5. To what purpose, according to Bernal Diaz del Castillo, did the Spanish come to Mexico?
(a) To bring the natives European literature and guns.
(b) To learn of the native peoples of the strange new land.
(c) To build houses and start a new civilization.
(d) To serve God and His Majesty and also to get riches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Treaty of Tordesillas accomplish?

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

3. For whom did Montezuma mistake the invading Europeans?

4. In Haiti, what does the rainbow symbolize?

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

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