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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Instead of hospitals and schools, what did the oil boom of Ecuador bring to the country?
(a) Audis.
(b) Color televisions.
(c) Highly bred dogs.
(d) Air conditioning.

2. For what is guano used?
(a) As decoration.
(b) As medicine.
(c) As fertilizer.
(d) As coolant.

3. How much of the native population of Latin American died of diseases contracted from the invaders?
(a) One-sixteenth of the population died.
(b) Over half of the population died.
(c) Only ten people died.
(d) One-third of the population died.

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

5. In 1968, what product did Uruguay agree to limit so the country could receive goods under the US agricultural surplus law?
(a) Scotch.
(b) Ponchos.
(c) Silver.
(d) Rice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Galeano say is the first condition for changing reality?

2. What was the first Latin American country to install an oil refinery?

3. For what sporting good is Haiti the chief producer?

4. What year did Columbus "discover" America?

5. In Brazil, what was Law 56,570, passed on July 6, 1965?

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