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

2. What did the export of guano help stave off in Europe?
(a) War.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Annoyance.
(d) Disease.

3. What is "tied aid"?
(a) It gives Latin America tax breaks.
(b) It is a method of dyeing colorful patterns on clothing.
(c) It bestows a general subsidy on US exports.
(d) It is a British policy whereupon the USA is blockaded.

4. What is expropriation?
(a) It is the tithe the Indians are expected to pay the government.
(b) It is the government's practice of usurping the Indians and claiming their lands.
(c) It is the Indian's policies of attacking government outposts relentlessly.
(d) It is the separation of the native peoples from the main population.

5. Who was William Walker?
(a) He was a British explorer who ventured deep into the Amazon.
(b) He was a US assassin who made his way through Central America, eventually taking Panama for the Panama Canal.
(c) He was a US historian who sought to tell the truth about the history of Latin America.
(d) He was a Haitian revolutionary who led a rebellion against landowners.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Juan Vicente Gomez?

2. Who was the person to coin the phrase "knowledge is power"?

3. In Brazil, what was Law 56,571, pass on July 6, 1965?

4. What country is the top petroleum exporter in the world (at the time the book was written)?

5. What was the great Aztec capital city?

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