WorksheetsVoices from Mariel Chapter 1 Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 19mins
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
Fidel Castro announces that he will open the Mariel Port on this day
April 1
June 4th
April 20th
October 16th
The acts of repudiation were .............. for or against the people leaving the country.
political marches
violent attacks
hunger strikes
peaceful demonstrations
These countries offered to take the refugees inside the embassy.
The Unites States, Spain, Peru and Costa Rica
The Unites States, Mexico, Spain and Chile
Spain, Argentina, the United States and Argentina
Hunduras, Colombia, the United States and Venezuela
The Cuban government took advantage of the Mariel crisis and began sending ............... among the refugees in the ships arriving in Key West.
common criminals
political prisoners
average dissidents
young children
Most Mariel boatlift refugees were ................ that had been born or raised with the Cuban revolution.
young people
average Cuban citizens
average revolutionaries
so called "worms"
Most of the boats leaving the Mariel Port .......
were almost empty
sank in the ocean
were overloaded
were very efficient
The president of the United States during the Mariel boatlift crisis was,,,,,,,,,,,,
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
John F. Kennedy
Jimmy Carter
When the Mariel Boatlift ended, approximately .............Cubans had arrived in the United States
100,000
125,000
10,856
50,000
When the fist Cubans entered the embassy, the Peruvian diplomats decided to ..............
provide refuge
return them
arrest them
reject them
The American media helped spread the .................. of .the Mariel boatlift refugees.
negative image
positive image
neutral image
real image
