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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 is silicosis?
(a) A disease of the lungs that kills many Latin American tin miners.
(b) A condition where the sufferer cannot stop laughing.
(c) A region of Bolivia that is completely uninhabited.
(d) A policy of government that excludes Bolivia from the international market.

2. Why was Juan Jose Arevalo's government overthrown by Rodolfo Armas, backed by the USA?
(a) Arevalo was planning an invasion of the USA.
(b) Rodolfo Armas had plans for agrarian reform.
(c) Arevalo was rumored to be Communist.
(d) Rodolfo Armas was the rightful President.

3. How did the USA attempt to curtail Brazil's petroleum trade?
(a) They provided oil to rival countries.
(b) They declared war and took all the oil fields.
(c) They asked Brazil nicely not to sell to anyone else.
(d) They gave Brazilian oil a grade "C."

4. What area's maps were given to private concerns with the aid of a US government geological survey?
(a) Amazonia.
(b) Bolivia.
(c) The Andes.
(d) Uruguay.

5. What is guano?
(a) A specific type of poncho.
(b) A traditional delicacy.
(c) Bird excrement.
(d) Brazilian currency.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bolivian tin have to go to be smelted?

2. What region is the world's top coffee producer?

3. In the January 1978 referendum, where did one place a cross if one voted "no" for Pinochet?

4. How long, on average, do Haitians live?

5. What did Haitians do to avoid forced labor in the mines?

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