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

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

3. What Aztec innovation in Mexico City is still visited by tourists today?
(a) The great sundial.
(b) The pyramids of Cairo.
(c) The golden mask.
(d) The floating gardens.

4. What year was Artigas's agrarian reform--"free land, free man," instituted?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1815.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1874.

5. What great mathematical principle did the Mayans discover before any other people in history?
(a) General relativity.
(b) The concept of zero.
(c) The circumference of the earth.
(d) Pi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What resource is exploited in modern-day Potosi?

2. Who was Guatemalan tyrant Jorge Ubico's idol?

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

4. Especially in Guatemala, what is the structure of the labor force visibly identified with?

5. What country basically owns the Central American banana industry?

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