Reference no: EM133556207

Questions

1. What distinction does the article "Overcoming Legacies of Conquest and Slavery" use to describe two major groups of indigenous peoples with different characteristics?

a) sedentary and non-sedentary

b) highland and lowland

c) urban and rural

d) civilized and barbaric

2. What impact did the Shining Path movement have on rural indigenous communities in Peru?

a) Many lost their lives to the guerrilla or army and even more fled the area.

b) Military sieges led to food shortages and starvation throughout the region.

c) It increased access to education, particularly bilingual education in Spanish and indigenous languages.

d) It introduced diseases that decimated previously uncontacted tribes.

3. General Efraín Ríos Montt went on trial in Guatemala for...

a) genocide

b) drug trafficking

c) money laundering

d) perjury

4. Approximately how many indigenous languages are still spoken today in Latin America?

a. over 1,000

b. over 50

c. over 500

d. over 5,000

5. Pachakutik is a __________________ created from the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE).

a. tribe

b. university

c. political party

d. religious group

6. The Guatemalan Civil War claimed thousands of lives, most of them...

a. Mayan Indigenous people

b. Mapuche Indigenous people

c. Afro-descendants

d. large land owners

e. military men

7. This uprising coincided with the signing of NAFTA in January 1994 by a group of dissatisfied citizens in the state of Chiapas in Mexico.

a. Landless Peasants Movement

b. 500 Years of Resistance

c. Zapatista movement

d. Committee for Peasant Unity

8. What major change did the 2009 constitution introduce in Bolivia?

a. It officially changed the nation from a republic to a plurinacional state.

b. It removed all term limits for the president.

c. It formally pardoned military leaders in charge during the dictatorship.

d. It annulled all previously existing treaties between indigenous groups and the government.