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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Seven Years After.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What replaced nitrates as the pillar of Chile's economy?
(a) Textiles.
(b) Hides.
(c) Mercury.
(d) Copper.

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

4. In the 1890s, Chile's dependence on Great Britain was comparable to what other colonized country?
(a) China.
(b) India.
(c) Australia.
(d) Morocco.

5. For whom did Montezuma mistake the invading Europeans?
(a) For the god Tenochtitlan.
(b) For the god Quetzalcoatl.
(c) For King Ferdinand himself.
(d) For his enemies in the south.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Uruguay, how many workers died in the railway gelignite explosion of 1977?

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

3. About how much of the price yielded by coffee going from Colombia to the US goes into the wages of the coffee workers?

4. How much has Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, grown in the last 30 years?

5. What company owns Brazilian iron?

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