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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. Who usually financed the conquistadors' expeditions?
(a) The native peoples of the New World.
(b) Businessmen or the conquistadors themselves.
(c) The state or government.
(d) England's monarch.

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

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

4. What did Haitians do to avoid forced labor in the mines?
(a) They ran away and resettled.
(b) They committed mass suicide.
(c) They poisoned the Spanish in great numbers.
(d) They rebelled and drove the Spaniards away.

5. What famous saying was associated with Guanajuato?
(a) "Gold and silver to be had, for a price."
(b) "A city of wisdom."
(c) "A stitch in time saves nine."
(d) "Father a merchant, son a gentleman, grandson a beggar."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How were the rubber workers in Brazil paid?

3. What do coffee and petroleum have in common?

4. In which country did Emilian Zapata introduce radical agrarian reform?

5. What great innovations did the sugar slave trade directly fund?

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