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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through he Invisible Sources of Power.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Especially in Guatemala, what is the structure of the labor force visibly identified with?
(a) Minifundios.
(b) Racism.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Poverty.

3. What was guano used for in Europe?
(a) Currency.
(b) Fertilizer.
(c) Clothing blends.
(d) Medicine.

4. What nickname does the author give the USA?
(a) The world policeman.
(b) The end of iron.
(c) The great consumer.
(d) The vast unknowable.

5. What caused the Chilean nitrate business to collapse?
(a) The war with Britain.
(b) The perfection of the Haber process.
(c) The exhaustion of guano.
(d) The flood of 1923.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Spanish conquistador defeated the great Tenochtitlan?

2. What famous saying was associated with Guanajuato?

3. Though the Indians of Latin American had a population of 70 million before foreign invasion, how many remained after 150 years?

4. What resource replaced nitrate as Chile's main export?

5. Where did Columbus think he had landed, even during his third voyage?

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