On the death of Hugo Chavez, here is a new Marxist IQ dedicated to the struggles in Latin America

1 In the aftermath of the U.S. anti colonial revolution, anti-colonial revolutions swept through the Spanish empire in the Western hemisphere.  The most influential revolutionary leader  of these revolutions was

a. Jose Marti

b. Benito Juarez

c. Simon Bolivar

d. Francisco Madero

2. The U.S. doctrine of "Manifest Destiny" in the decades before the civil war

    a. sought to bring freedom and democracy to all of the Western Hemisphere

    b. was aimed at protecting the U.S, from invasion by Mexico

    c. sought to bring Christianity to indigenous peoples

   d. was the rationale used to conquer from Mexico the territories from Texas to California

3.Communists and Socialists have played an important role in the struggles to liberate the oppressed masses of Latin America.  The first major rebellion led by a Communist against a brutal dictatorship in Latin America was

a. Fidel Castro in Cuba in 1959

b. Pancho Villa in Mexico in 1916

c. Farabundo Marti in El Salvador in 1932

d, Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1950,

4. The Cuban Revolution, adopting Marxism Leninism  as it struggled to survive has faced over the last fifty three years

a. invasion by U.S. created and armed forces at the Bay of Pigs in 1961

b. numerous U.S. directed attempts to sabotage the  Cuban economy and murder Fidel Castro

c. The greatest threat any nation has faced of nuclear attack in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962

d. all of the above

5. Hugo Chavez Bolivarian Socialist Movement and Government was

   a. isolated in Latin America

   b.  Based on the dictatorship of the Proletariat

   c.  Treated with respect by the Bush and Obama administrations

   d.  part of larger socialist oriented trends in Latin America, including Bolivia, Brazil, Chile  et al

Answers to the Marxist IQ of two weeks ago, of of which were gotten right by Sean Mulligan

1.b

2.a

3.c

4.d

5.c