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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 is the most universal health problem in Latin America?
(a) Poor eyesight.
(b) Malnutrition.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Infectious disease.

2. What labor force did the author eyewitness?
(a) The rubber plantations of Brazil.
(b) The oil refineries of Uruguay.
(c) The tin mines of Bolivia.
(d) The silver mines of Potosi.

3. What did Mariano Melgarejo force a British ambassador to drink as punishment for sneering at the local chichas?
(a) A bottle of bad wine.
(b) Water from the Amazon.
(c) A barrel of chocolate.
(d) A tub of stale beer.

4. What was the significance of the land the USA purchased from Brazil?
(a) It makes Brazil part of the USA.
(b) It is in the shape of Texas.
(c) It is the location of a new US state.
(d) It cuts the Amazon off from the rest of the country.

5. What practice have Protestant church missionaries encouraged to Amazonian peoples?
(a) Birth control.
(b) Eye exams.
(c) Dental braces.
(d) Boiling water.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because of a deal with the USA, in how many years may Brazil run out of manganese for its own steel industry?

2. What mineral, almost absent in the USA, is necessary to make aluminum?

3. For what is guano used?

4. What year did Columbus "discover" America?

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

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