Voices from Mariel Chapter 1 Quiz

The event that triggered the Mariel Boatlift was .......

• The missile crisis

• the Bay of Pigs invasion

• the missile crisis

• the Peruvian embassy invasion

How many Cubans entered the Embassy at first?

• forty three

• Twenty one

• Six

• One hundred thousand

Fidel Castro declared Cuba a socialist state in this year.

• 1959

• 1980

• 1961

• 1979

The Bay of Pigs invasion took place in ........

• 1977

• 1980

• 1961

• 1979

The Cuban Missile Crisis took place in ....

• 1973

• 1959

• 1961

• 1962

Cuban Americans allowed to

to return to Cuba in this year.

• 1977

• 1978

• 1979

• 1980

This character felt cheated when the Cuban returned to the island.

• Fidel Castro

• Carlos Morales

• Luis de la Pax

• President Carter

To punish the Peruvian government, at first Fidel Castro .....

• allowed his soldiers to walk in the embassy

• Took the guards away from the embassy

• Arrested the people inside the embassy

• Began arresting its own people outside the embassy

Approximately this many people entered the Peruvian embassy within 48 hours.

• Eleven thousand

• Nine thousand

• One hundred thousand

• Fifteen hundred

To portray a negative image of the refugees inside the embassy, the Cuban government did this.

• Kept the media out

• distributed little food

• Organized pro government demonstrations

• Sent it’s own agents