How Well Do You Know Chilean History?
bobbyknuckles
Created 6/28/2024
Test your knowledge of Chilean history with this quiz! Can you get a perfect score of 20?
1. In what year did the Junta in Santiago proclaim autonomy for Chile?
2. Who led the Army of the Andes to defeat the Spanish in 1817?
Bernardo O'Higgins and Jose de San Martin
Manuel Montt and Jorge Alessandri
Eduardo Frei Montalva and Salvador Allende
Carlos Ibanez and Arturo Alessandri
3. Which year marks the start of Chile's independence with O'Higgins as supreme leader?
4. In which conflict did Chile increase its territory by one-third?
War of the Pacific
War of Independence
Civil War of 1891
Chincha Islands War
5. Who was the Chilean president that liberalized the constitution between 1851-61?
Manuel Montt
Jose Manuel Balmaceda
Jorge Alessandri
Carlos Ibanez
6. Which indigenous group successfully resisted the first Spanish invasion in 1535?
Araucanians
Chinchorro
Mapuche
Inca
7. When did Pedro de Valdivia found Santiago?
8. In what year did the devastating Valdivia earthquake occur?
9. Who became the world's first democratically elected Marxist president in 1970?
Salvador Allende
Michelle Bachelet
Eduardo Frei Montalva
Arturo Alessandri
10. What marked the end of the civil war between the liberal federalists and conservative centralists?
Conservative Victory
Liberal Victory
Spanish Invasion
Independence Proclamation
11. Which organization did Chile sign a free-trade deal with in 2006?
China
Peru
Mexico
United States
12. Who was the Chilean president during the Seguro Obrero Massacre in 1938?
Pedro Aguirre Cerda
Carlos Ibanez
Manuel Montt
Jorge Alessandri
13. What year did Michelle Bachelet first become president of Chile?
14. When did Gabriela Mistral win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
15. Which president was in power when the 1973 coup occurred?
Salvador Allende
Eduardo Frei Montalva
Carlos Ibanez
Arturo Alessandri
16. What significant event occurred in Chile in 1814?
Spain regains control
Chile becomes independent
Junta proclaims autonomy
War of the Pacific begins
17. Which earthquake was the most destructive in Chile's history?
Valdivia earthquake
Chillán earthquake
2010 earthquake
1750 Concepción earthquake
18. When did the Great Valparaiso Earthquake occur?
19. What year did the civil war over constitutional dispute end with the president reduced to a figurehead?
20. Which European explorer discovered the strait that now bears his name in 1520?
Ferdinand Magellan
Pedro de Valdivia
Francis Drake
Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza
