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

2. 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%

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

4. What states, originally belonging to Mexico, did the USA claim?
(a) Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky.
(b) Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut.
(c) Texas, California, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada.
(d) Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What year did Brazil abolish slavery?

4. What analogy does Paul Baran use to explain the division of labor with the arrival of capitalism?

5. From the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century, what peoples were the center of the slave trade?

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