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

2. From where does imperialist capital capture foreign markets?
(a) They capture from the forest.
(b) They capture from the sea.
(c) They capture from within.
(d) They capture from outside.

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

4. How, in the 1800s, did Britain pay for most of its Latin American goods?
(a) It paid with carbonate.
(b) It paid with silver.
(c) It paid with textiles.
(d) It paid with gold.

5. Though the Indians of Latin American had a population of 70 million before foreign invasion, how many remained after 150 years?
(a) None.
(b) 50 million.
(c) 15 million.
(d) 3.5 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Aleijadinho?

2. What did Columbus witness on his first voyage, while passing Tenerife?

3. What law did Juan Domingo Peron impose in Argentina in compliance with minimum wage?

4. What is silicosis?

5. How does Latin America make up for what it loses in price?

(see the answer key)

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