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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the author compare Latin America's capacity for surprise?
(a) Pandora's box.
(b) A jack-in-the-box.
(c) Fool's gold.
(d) Guerilla warfare.

2. What year did Brazil abolish slavery?
(a) 1701.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1888.

3. What rationalization was used by the conquerors who enslaved the native populations?
(a) They declared the Indians owed them labor because of their defeat in the war.
(b) They claimed the Indians enjoyed the work.
(c) They denied that Indians had souls, and therefore were no better than beasts of burden.
(d) They would share the wealth with the Indians eventually.

4. Which countries were involved in the War of the Pacific, 1879?
(a) Venezuela, Ecuador, and Paraguay.
(b) Haiti, Guatemala, and Nicaragua,
(c) Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.
(d) Bolivia, Peru, and Chile.

5. What are the origins of the Indian women's style of dress?
(a) The styles were passed down through generations of native women.
(b) The styles were popularized by the Spanish nobility and worn by the natives as cast-offs.
(c) The styles were imposed in modern times by a fascist government.
(d) The styles were copied from peasant woman in Spain and imposed by Charles III.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is dynamic industry?

2. Why must the USA purchase so many of its minerals abroad?

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

4. In the 1890s, Chile's dependence on Great Britain was comparable to what other colonized country?

5. What did John Thomas North and his partner Robert Harvey purchase for the war effort?

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