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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tales of Premature Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first Latin American country to install an oil refinery?
(a) Paraguay.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Venezuela.
(d) Uruguay.

2. What did Andre Gunder Frank discover upon analyzing the history of Latin America's "metropolis-satellite" relationships?
(a) He discovered that the poorest modern-day regions have remained poor for hundreds of years.
(b) He discovered that the poorest modern-day regions once experienced huge periods of economic boom.
(c) He discovered that the most wealthy modern-day regions are Spanish.
(d) He discovered that the most wealthy modern-day regions have remained wealthy for hundreds of years.

3. What did the export of guano help stave off in Europe?
(a) Disease.
(b) War.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Annoyance.

4. How did Asia acquire rubber tree seeds?
(a) Christopher Columbus took seeds back for Ferdinand and Isabella.
(b) Chinese merchants came to Brazil and took the seeds back.
(c) Henry Wickham smuggled seeds out of Brazil.
(d) The trees were discovered deep in the forest.

5. In Haiti, what does the rainbow symbolize?
(a) The rainbow symbolizes the victory in the Haitian Civil War.
(b) The rainbow symbolizes the largest sugar harvest on record anywhere in the world.
(c) The rainbow symbolizes slaves who escaped to the west side of the island and reconstructed their African way of life.
(d) The rainbow symbolizes the European ships that came to take the Africans to Haiti so long ago.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For whom did Montezuma mistake the invading Europeans?

3. What Spanish city was reconquered in 1492 under the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella?

4. How did American interests in Venezuelan crude oil attempt to derail the Brazilian crude oil economy?

5. Which countries were involved in the War of the Pacific, 1879?

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