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___________ means that people are extremely poor and do not have enough money to meet their basic needs like food, clean water, clothing, housing, and toilets.
a) Parliament
b) Destitute
c) Poverty
d) Culture

___________ is the movement of people within or across a country’s borders,
a) Dancing
b) Migration
c) Hibernation
d) Communist

A __________ is a violent criminal organization that traffics drugs.
a) drug cartel
b) drug army
c) drug navy
d) drug mob

What country supported Castro’s Communist regime in Cuba?
a) UK
b) United States
c) France
d) Soviet Union (USSR)

The official language of Brazil is __________.
a) Portuguese
b) Spanish
c) German
d) French

Europeans brought _________over from Africa because they had more immunity from European diseases and most of the natives in Latin America had died off due to European diseases.
a) slaves
b) Europeans
c) Asians
d) Americans

What kind of government did Fidel Castro establish in Cuba?
a) democratic
b) socialist
c) Communist
d) theocracy

In 1959, who led a revolution in Cuba and established himself as dictator?
a) Speedy Gonzalez
b) Erik Estrada
c) Che Guevara
d) Fidel Castro

_____________ were priests and other followers sent by the Roman Catholic Church to convert the natives in the New World.
a) Missionaries
b) Conquistadors
c) Nuns
d) Teachers

What two countries settled most of Latin America?
a) UK and US
b) Spain and Switzerland
c) Spain and Portugal
d) Australia and New Zealand

Many Latin Americans travel to what country in search of better jobs, an education, better housing, and a chance to improve their lives?
a) U.S.
b) UK
c) France
d) Monaco

The U.S. does not get along well with this Latin American island country because of its Communist government.
a) Cuba
b) UK
c) Bulgaria
d) Hungary

Which Communist island nation in the Caribbean restricts the freedoms of their citizens?
a) Haiti
b) Curacao
c) Cuba
d) Puerto Rico

The Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 1960s fueled bad relations between what two countries?
a) Cuba and the US
b) UK and Spain
c) Portugal and Germany
d) Soviet Union and Ukraine

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