Question 1

When the Cortez and the conquistadors arrived at Tenochtitlan, they found

Accepted Answer

A)  A city larger than any existing city in Europe 
B)  A small but prosperous city 
C)  Impressive pyramids but not much else 
D)  A big city but little economic life beyond the elites A

Question 2

What event late in the late colonial era sent shivers down the spines of the colonial ruling elte?

Accepted Answer

A)  The American Revolution 
B)  An earthquake that nearly destroymed Quito 
C)  The Vatican's call for freedom of religion 
D)  The Hatitian Revolution D

Question 3

Evo Morales emerged as representative of which group in Bolivia

Accepted Answer

A)  Mestizos 
B)  Aymaras 
C)  Afrodescendents 
D)  Incas B

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT a legacy of colonialism in Latin America?

Accepted Answer

A)  Economic dependency 
B)  Extractivism 
C)  Monoculture 
D)  Rejection of idea of a common Latin identity

Question 5

Over time a colonial elite developed in Latin America, consisting of elites who generally were born in the region and formed a racial-econommic ruling class subject to imperial rulers. In Spanish America they were known as:

Accepted Answer

A)  Mestizos 
B)  Criollos 
C)  Peninsulares 
D)  Caudillos

Question 6

A term describing gender relations in colonial Latin America has also been used to describe the Iberian colonial system of extraction. The phrase often used is:

Accepted Answer

A)  La Raza 
B)  Open veins of Latin America 
C)  Marianismo 
D)  Rape of a Continent

Question 7

While Brazil's colonial experience was similar in many ways to the rest of Latin America, it differed in that:

Accepted Answer

A)  Brazil was a vast territory but unlike Spanish America not divided by Portugal into separae colonial administrations 
B)  Brazil's economy was largely self-contained, not geared to export of raw materials 
C)  Brazil relied more on Indigenous labor than the slave trade 
D)  Disease had less impact on Brazil pre-Colombian population

Question 8

Which of the following factors is now regarded as a less signficant factor explaining the success of the Conquistadors than it once was?

Accepted Answer

A)  Indigneous peoples thought Pizarro and Cortez were gods 
B)  Diseases brought by the Europeans ravaged indigenous populations 
C)  Indigenous peoples often saw the Spaniards as allies for revolts against the Aztecs and Inca. 
D)  European weapons were technologically superior.

Question 9

Plurinationalism in the Andes is associated with:

Accepted Answer

A)  The call for genuine pluralist democracy, that is, polyarchy 
B)  The demand by Indigenous people to break way and form their own sovereign state 
C)  The idea that the state in Bolivia and some other Andean nations should be based not on the idea of a single nation but multiple nationalities 
D)  The efforts of mestizo elites to make "la raza" the defining idea of nationality

Question 10

The seeds of class and racial inequality in Latin America were sown by the king's practice of "entrusting" conquerors with the souls and labor of Indignous peoples. This was known as:

Accepted Answer

A)  Mestizaje 
B)  Compadrazgo 
C)  Encomienda 
D)  Criolloismo

Exam 4: Democratic and Autocratic Threads Before Columbus and in Colonial Latin America