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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the person to coin the phrase "knowledge is power"?
(a) President Lyndon Johnson.
(b) Sir Francis Bacon.
(c) Jose Artigas.
(d) Yogi Bera.

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

3. Who is the "king of tin"?
(a) Simon Ituri Patino.
(b) John Thomas North.
(c) Tupac Amaru.
(d) Jose Manuel Balmaceda.

4. How did American interests in Venezuelan crude oil attempt to derail the Brazilian crude oil economy?
(a) They tried to blackmail the USSR into only using Venezuelan oil.
(b) They rated Brazilian crude oil a "C".
(c) They attempted a blockade of the Brazilian coastline.
(d) They created a conflict with the Brazilian government.

5. From where does Galeano think that modern-day slavers operate?
(a) Ivory towers.
(b) Slaves ships.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Ministries of labor.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what is guano used?

2. What is silicosis?

3. What analogy does Paul Baran use to explain the division of labor with the arrival of capitalism?

4. What great innovations did the sugar slave trade directly fund?

5. What rationalization was used by the conquerors who enslaved the native populations?

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