Name: ________________________________________________________________________ Date: _________________________ Class: _____ Revolution and Nationalism in Mexico: Quiz ANSWER KEY Read each question or statement carefully. Answer the question or complete the statement by selecting the most appropriate of the four choices. 1. What Mexican president, considered by many to 5. He was born a peasant on a hacienda in the have been a dictator, held office from 1876 until Mexican state of Durango in 1878. As a teenager, 1911? he fled the hacienda and joined a group of bandits. a. Francisco I. Madero Who was this popular Mexican revolutionary, often b. Francisco Leon de la Barra called “El Centauro del Norte” (“The Centaur of the c. Manuel Gonzalez North”)? d. Porfirio Diaz a. Emiliano Zapata 2. Followers of Emiliano Zapata were known as what? b. Francisco “Pancho” Villa a. Conquistadores c. Porfirio Diaz www.studenthandouts.com b. Reconquistas d. Venustriano Carranza c. Renegades 6. What 1913 document described Huerta’s d. Zapatistas government as illegitimate, and called for the 3. What president of Mexico, who served from 1917 reinstatement of former officials as well as new until his assassination in 1920, came from a elections? wealthy ranching family of northern Mexico? a. Plan of Agua Prieta a. Adolfo de la Huerta b. Plan of Ayala b. Francisco Madero c. Plan of Guadalupe c. Francisco “Pancho” Villa d. Plan of Iguala d. Venustiano Carranza 7. What leading figure of the Mexican Revolution, 4. Under the policy of __________, governments in born in Morelos, Mexico, in 1879, led the Liberation Latin America (such as Mexico) sought to exercise Army of the South? local control over their country’s industries. a. Diego Rivera a. cultural nationalism b. Emiliano Zapata © Student Handouts, Inc. Inc. Handouts, © Student b. economic nationalism c. Francisco “Pancho” Villa c. Good Neighbor Policy d. Victoriano Huerta d. nationalization Visit www.studenthandouts.com for free interactive test-prep games…no log-in required! Name: ________________________________________________________________________ Date: _________________________ Class: _____ 8. At the turn of the last century (circa 1900), Latin 13. He was an atheist and a communist, born in American countries exported cash crops and Guanajuato in 1886. He married fellow artist Frida natural resources to the industrialized world, and Kahlo twice, in 1929 and 1940. Who was this imported manufactured goods. Mexican artist, best known for his mural paintings? a. True a. Diego Luna b. False b. Diego Rivera 9. What Mexican president, who held office from 1934 c. Francisco Madero to 1940, nationalized foreign-owned oil companies d. Francisco “Pancho” Villa in Mexico? 14. In what 1911 document did Emiliano Zapata put a. Abelardo L. Rodriguez forth his ideas for reform in Mexico? b. Lazaro Cardenas a. Plan of Ayala c. Manuel Avila Camacho b. Plan of Casa Mata d. Venustiano Carranza c. Plan of Guadalupe 10. Large plantations in Latin America were known as d. Plan of Tuxtepec what? 15. What Mexican president (1913-1914) is popularly a. empanadas called “El Chacal” (“The Jackal”) because of the b. factories unsavory way he came to power? c. haciendas a. Francisco S. Carvajal d. homesteads b. Lazaro Cardenas 11. What Mexican revolutionary leader held the c. Pedro Lascurain presidency from 1911 until 1913, when he was d. Victoriano Huerta assassinated? a. Emiliano Zapata b. Francisco I. Madero c. Porfirio Diaz d. Victoriano Huerta 12. What is the capital of Mexico? a. Durango b. Guadalajara c. Mexico City d. Tijuana Visit www.studenthandouts.com for free interactive test-prep games…no log-in required! .