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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 does IMF stand for?
(a) International Monetary Fund.
(b) Interposing Malaga's Forests.
(c) Intercontinental Movement Focus.
(d) Istabul's Major Front.

2. Who usually financed the conquistadors' expeditions?
(a) The state or government.
(b) Businessmen or the conquistadors themselves.
(c) England's monarch.
(d) The native peoples of the New World.

3. What was the significance of the land the USA purchased from Brazil?
(a) It cuts the Amazon off from the rest of the country.
(b) It is the location of a new US state.
(c) It is in the shape of Texas.
(d) It makes Brazil part of the USA.

4. What Latin American countries were involved in the War of the Pacific?
(a) Bolivia, Peru, and Chile.
(b) Mexico, Guatemala, and Panama.
(c) Venezuela, Argentina, and Ecuador.
(d) Uruguay, Paraguay, and Brazil.

5. In what year did General Velasco Alvarado, social and economic reformist, die?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1792.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1654.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alcoa stand for?

2. How much of Latin America was predicted to be in foreign creditors' hands by 1980?

3. What year was Artigas's agrarian reform--"free land, free man," instituted?

4. How did American interests in Venezuelan crude oil attempt to derail the Brazilian crude oil economy?

5. What states, originally belonging to Mexico, did the USA claim?

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