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

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

3. Without its acquisition of Brazilian gold from Portugal, what major conflict would England surely have lost?
(a) The Napoleonic War.
(b) The American Revolutionary War.
(c) The Spanish War.
(d) The Hundred Years' War.

4. What are the origins of the Indian women's style of dress?
(a) The styles were popularized by the Spanish nobility and worn by the natives as cast-offs.
(b) The styles were copied from peasant woman in Spain and imposed by Charles III.
(c) The styles were passed down through generations of native women.
(d) The styles were imposed in modern times by a fascist government.

5. What rationalization was used by the conquerors who enslaved the native populations?
(a) They would share the wealth with the Indians eventually.
(b) They declared the Indians owed them labor because of their defeat in the war.
(c) They claimed the Indians enjoyed the work.
(d) They denied that Indians had souls, and therefore were no better than beasts of burden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Andre Gunder Frank discover upon analyzing the history of Latin America's "metropolis-satellite" relationships?

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

3. What Hapsburg King of Spain was obsessed with religious wars, draining Spain's coffers and exploited Latin America?

4. What are the environmental problems with many of Latin America's cash crops?

5. What was the great Aztec capital city?

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