Sample: What is the primary language of Brazil?

(a) Spanish ( b) Spanish, with a Portuguese accent (c) Tupi-Guaraní (d) Portuguese

Answer: d

In Belize in the 1990s, there were: -- Choose an answer -- more native Spanish speakers than English speakers more native English speakers than any other group more Belizean Creole speakers than Spanish speakers more speakers of Maya languages than English speakers 

The last major international war in Latin America involved the following countries:-- Choose an answer -- Argentina and England Cuba, Angola and Ethiopia Peru and Ecuador Bolivia and Paraguay 

Effective political protest by women in Latin America gained international attention. These silent vigils were held by:-- Choose an answer -- Las Madres Silenciosas Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo Las Madres Revolucionarias Las Madres Unidas 

When Hernan Cortes met his interpreter Malintzin, later called Dona Marina, and even later Malinche, she did not speak Spanish. She did speak:-- Choose an answer -- A major Mayan dialect and Nahuatl A major Mayan dialect and Quechua Guarani and Quechua only Nahuatl 

According to most versions of the Mexican legend, La Llorona:-- Choose an answer -- killed her lover committed suicide killed her children killed her neighbor's children 

From what country in 1999 did a judge petition an English court to extradite Chilean strongman Augusto Pinochet to stand trial for crimes against humanity?-- Choose an answer -- Spain Chile The United States Sweden 

As a percentage of its central government expenditures, in the early 1990s Costa Rica, which does not have an army, spent only 1.4 percent on the military. During this same period, the following countries spent more than 10 percent on the military except for:-- Choose an answer -- Mexico Peru Colombia Argentina 

Which of the following writers is not associated with the so-called "Boom" of Latin American novelists during the 1960s and 1970s?-- Choose an answer --Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) Julio Cortázar (Argentina) Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (Mexico) 

Frida Kahlo, one of themost important Mexican artists of the twentieth century, was married to another famous artist. He was:-- Choose an answer -- Diego Rivera José Clemente Orozco David Alfaro Siqueiros Rufino Tamayo 

Bossa nova is a style of music that was popularized by composers such as Antonio Carlos Jobim. It became very popular among American jazz musicians in the fifties and sixties. Where did it originate?-- Choose an answer -- Colombia Puerto Rico Brazil Jamaica 

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