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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what purpose, according to Bernal Diaz del Castillo, did the Spanish come to Mexico?
(a) To bring the natives European literature and guns.
(b) To serve God and His Majesty and also to get riches.
(c) To build houses and start a new civilization.
(d) To learn of the native peoples of the strange new land.

3. For whom did Montezuma mistake the invading Europeans?
(a) For his enemies in the south.
(b) For the god Quetzalcoatl.
(c) For the god Tenochtitlan.
(d) For King Ferdinand himself.

4. What resources caused the boom of the Minas Gerais region?
(a) Tin and iron.
(b) Gold and diamonds.
(c) Oil and water.
(d) Silver and crystal.

5. In which country did Emilian Zapata introduce radical agrarian reform?
(a) Northern Brazil.
(b) Southen Mexico.
(c) Western Peru.
(d) Central Honduras.

6. After gold, what was the next most important product Latin America could produce?
(a) Glass.
(b) Wheat.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Corn.

7. How did Asia acquire rubber tree seeds?
(a) Henry Wickham smuggled seeds out of Brazil.
(b) Chinese merchants came to Brazil and took the seeds back.
(c) The trees were discovered deep in the forest.
(d) Christopher Columbus took seeds back for Ferdinand and Isabella.

8. Who was Tupac Amaru?
(a) He was a Spanish soldier who defected to the natives.
(b) He was a Spanish general who conquered the natives in Cuzco.
(c) He was a mestizo chief and a descendant of the Incas who led a rebellion in Cuzco.
(d) He was a Mayan chief who led the people out of occupied Cuzco.

9. Who was Juan Vicente Gomez?
(a) The Bolivian revolutionary.
(b) The President of Brazilian.
(c) The ambassador of Ecuador to Britain.
(d) The king of Venezuelan oil.

10. From the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century, what peoples were the center of the slave trade?
(a) Australians.
(b) Africans.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Irish.

11. What did John Thomas North and his partner Robert Harvey purchase for the war effort?
(a) Guns.
(b) Bonds.
(c) Bread.
(d) Silver.

12. What year did Brazil abolish slavery?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1701.
(d) 1888.

13. Because of a deal with the USA, in how many years may Brazil run out of manganese for its own steel industry?
(a) 25.
(b) 100.
(c) 15.
(d) 5.

14. What do miners chew to counteract some effects of working in the tin mines?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Coca leaves.
(c) Leather straps.
(d) Wrigley's gum.

15. What resource is exploited in modern-day Potosi?
(a) Silver.
(b) Gold.
(c) Tin.
(d) Diamonds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most universal health problem in Latin America?

2. Out of the 70,000 Guatemalans that die each year, how many are children?

3. What is the world's chief fuel?

4. What illegal practice drains Brazil of more than $100 million a year?

5. Why was Juan Jose Arevalo's government overthrown by Rodolfo Armas, backed by the USA?

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