BRAZIL 905 BRAZIL 



Outline and Questions on Brazil Continued 



Who tried to do for Brazil what Prescott did for another South American coun- 

 try? 



Where is the largest unexplored area in the western hemisphere? 



Is it an absurdity to speak of a "cotton tree"? Why? 



If a trail were cut through the Amazon jungle in the spring, would it be easily 

 followed in the autumn? Why? 



With what great European ruler was Brazil's most famous emperor connected 

 by marriage? 



How would the United States suffer if commerce with Brazil were cut off? 



Compare the country as to size with the United States and Canada. 



If the inhabitants of the United States were transferred to Brazil, how much 

 more densely populated would that country be than it is at present? 



What advantage have the children in the coast states over those in the inland 

 regions? 



How does the smallest Brazilian state compare in size and population with the 

 smallest state in the American Union? 



How does it happen that Brazil is Portuguese rather than Spanish, like the rest 

 of South America? 



Do all locomotives here have coal cars? Why? 



How long would it take you to go from New York to Rio de Janeiro? From 

 Para to London? From New York to Pernambuco? 



Why are laws relating to freedom of worship unnecessary? 



How many times as much rain falls in the Amazon basin each year as in the 

 best- watered part of the United States? 



Four men in a restaurant in Bahia were charged for their dinner' ten thousand 

 reis, a reis being the thousandth part of a milreis. How much, in American money, 

 did each have to pay? 



Why has it been more profitable to allow excellent grazing lands to lie idle in most 

 parts of the country than to raise cattle on them? 



Why would it not be good advertising to state that cigars were made of Bra- 

 zilian tobacco? 



How did the country get its name? 



Why would you not care to live in the Amazon region? 



What is meant by the expression, "He hears with the ears of a merchant"? 



What is the country's great source of wealth? How large a part of the indus- 

 tries centers about it? 



How large a part of the Amazon system lies within this one country? 



What food besides fish does the Amazon furnish? 



What valuable product is received from the "up-river hevea" tree? 



How does the density of population in the state of Rio de Janeiro compare with 

 that of Kentucky? How does that of Amazonas compare with that of British 

 Columbia? 



What effect has the fuel supply had on manufactures? 



Name three things which the great forests yield. 



When was the capital of Brazil the capital of another country as well? 



When did a subject people establish and control a state of their own? What 

 did they call it? 



If a young man of Brazil determines to go to a university, what must he do? 



Describe briefly the harbor of Rio de Janeiro. 



