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Reading Questions

Choose the best answer.

1. In what year was slavery abolished?

a. 1895
b. 1492
c. 1930
d. 1886

2. Which of these happened first in the passage?
a. Sergeant Batista became president.
b. Fidel Castro led a revolution.

c. Cuba is the most populous country in the Caribbean.
d. When the Soviet Union collapsed Cuba’s economy plummeted.

3. Why did the attempted invasion of Cuba by U.S. backed Cuban exiles in

1961 fail?
a. They lacked popular support.
b. They were not properly trained.

c. The Soviet Union collapsed.
d. They were commanded by a corrupt leader.

4. How were Fidel Castro and Fulgencio Batista similar?

a. They were both corrupt.
b. They both formed an alliance with the Soviet Union.
c. They were both president of Cuba.
d. They both discouraged American investment in Cuba.

5. Predict what might cause a country’s native people to disappear.
a. diseases and genocide
b. advancement of technology
c. an economic collapse

d. the discovery of a new land

6. In the context of this passage the word occupation means,
a. a person’s job

b. an activity one is engaged in
c. the control of an area by military force
d. to carefully watch something

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