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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. What year did Brazil abolish slavery?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1701.

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

3. What are the environmental problems with many of Latin America's cash crops?
(a) Many of the cash crops are eaten by animals.
(b) Coffee, sugarcane, and cotton are primarily consumed by the farmers.
(c) Coffee, sugarcane, and cotton all require mass deforestation.
(d) Many of the cash crops are failing and leaving large swaths of empty land.

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

5. Who was the English monarch at the time of this incident?
(a) Queen Victoria, after which claimed Bolivia no longer existed.
(b) Queen Elizabeth II, who ignored the incident.
(c) King George I, who declared war on Bolivia.
(d) King Henry VIII, after which congratulated Melgarejo on being creative.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Miguel Hidalgo?

3. What did Mariano Melgarejo force a British ambassador to drink as punishment for sneering at the local chichas?

4. What is silicosis?

5. What caused the Chilean nitrate business to collapse?

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