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Brazil review

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a Tributary?

a)

Tall trees with no leaves.

b)

Small junge with few animals.

c)

a small river that flows into a larger river

d)

Forest Fire that ca't be put out.

2.

Define indigenous.

a)

A soccer player.

b)

The popular kids.

c)

Natives to the land.

d)

Terrorist.

3.

slash-and-burn agriculture

a)

A dark form of music.

b)

A world wind of fire buring up crops.

c)

A ceremont to bring better crops.

d)

Cutting down trees and burning away underbrush to create fields for growing crops.

4.

Rio de Janeiro became the capital of the Portuguese Empire when the royal family and other government leaders fled there to escape the French army.

a)

Ture

b)

False

5.

What are the top two crops of Brazil?

a)

Corn and Green beans

b)

Coffee and Soybeans

c)

Grass and Hay

d)

Cakes and Cookies

6.

Where do most Brazilians live?

a)

on the highland plateaus

b)

on the Pampas

c)

on the Amazon Basin

d)

on the coastal lowlands

7.

King John III gave wealthy supporters land grants.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

The Queen of Enland is under which form of government?

a)

Communism

b)

Democracy

c)

Constitiutional Monarchy

d)

Republic

9.

Brazil became an independent nation when Dom João made his

son Pedro emperor.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

What form of limited government did Brazil adopt when it gained its independence in the 1820s?

a)

oligarchy

b)

democracy

c)

republic

d)

constitutional monarchy

11.

Emperor Pedro I was a popular and beloved ruler.

a)

Ture

b)

False

12.

Christopher Columbus was an expolerer for what country?

a)

Japan

b)

Brazil

c)

Guam

d)

Spain

13.

In what way is Brazil different from every other South American country?

a)

It is the only South American country that has a Portuguese heritage.

b)

It is the only South American country where Spanish is spoken.

c)

It is the only South American country where Christianity is not the main religion.

d)

It is the only South American country that has an indigenous population.

14.

The largest country in South America is Brazil.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Where would you most likely encounter a favela, or shantytown?

a)

in the rain forest

b)

In a small, rural town

c)

on a plantation

d)

on the edge of a city

16.

In the 1500s, King John III of Portugal gave large tracts of land in Brazil to his supporters, who agreed to develop the land. Which of the following was a direct consequence of the land-grant system? 

a)

Portugal went bankrupt from giving up so much valuable land.

b)

Spain sent troops into the region to prevent the colonization of Brazil.

c)

Colonists forced the native population into slavery.

d)

Colonists became wealthy by selling the land to the native populations.

17.

Roman Catholicism

is the predominant religion in Brazil.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Sometimes

18.

Of which agricultural product is Brazil the largest supplier?

a)

oranges

b)

pineapples

c)

cotton

d)

pears

19.

The

River flows east across Brazil to the Atlantic Ocean.

a)

Orinoco

b)

Amazon

c)

Los Lane

d)

Rio Grande