Q: Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Americas where Spanish and Portuguese are predominant. The term originated in 19th century France as "Amerique latine" to consider French-speaking territories in the Americas (Haiti, French Guiana, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint Martin, Saint Barthelemy) along with the larger group of countries where Spanish and Portuguese languages prevailed. It is therefore broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic Americathough it usually excludes French Canada and modern French Louisiana.

Latin America consists of nineteen sovereign states and several territories and dependencies which cover an area that stretches from the northern border of Mexico to the southern tip of South America, including the Caribbean. It has an area of approximately 19,197,000km (7,412,000sq mi), almost 13% of the Earth's land surface area. As of , its population was estimated at more than floor(/1e6) million and in 2014, Latin America had a combined nominal GDP of 5,573,397 million USD and a GDP PPP of 7,531,585 million USD.

The term "Latin America" was first used in an 1856 conference with the title "Initiative of the America. Idea for a Federal Congress of Republics" (Iniciativa de la America. Idea de un Congreso Federal de las Republicas), by the Chilean politician Francisco Bilbao. In such conference, he called for the creation of a confederation of Latin American republics to better search for their common defense and prosperity, without political or economic barriers between them. In the same work, he also detailed the principles under which such a confederation should work.

1. Spanish and Portuguese
2. Latin America
3. in the 19th century
4. France
5. Amerique latine
6. 7,412,000sq mi
7. almost 13%
8. 1856
9. in a conference
10. Initiative of the America. Idea for a Federal Congress of Republics
11. Francisco Bilbao.
12. Chile
13. politician
14. he called for the creation of a confederation of Latin American republics
15. to better search for their common defense

Numbered questions:
1. what languages are dominant in the area covered in the article?
2. what is the area called?
3. when was the area first called that?
4. where?
5. what is it in French?
6. how many square miles in the region?
7. how much of the planet does it cover?
8. what year did people start calling the area Latin America?
9. where?
10. what was it titled?
11. who coined the phrase?
12. where was he from?
13. what was his occupation?
14. what did he do at the meeting?
15. why?

Q: CHAPTER LXXVI Some Pleasant, Shady Talk In The Groves, Between My Lords Abrazza And Media, Babbalanja, Mohi, And Yoomy

Abrazza had a cool retreat--a grove of dates; where we were used to lounge of noons, and mix our converse with the babble of the rills; and mix our punches in goblets chased with grapes. And as ever, King Abrazza was the prince of hosts.

"Your crown," he said to Media; and with his own, he hung it on a bough.

"Be not ceremonious:" and stretched his royal legs upon the turf.

"Wine!" and his pages poured it out.

So on the grass we lounged; and King Abrazza, who loved his antique ancestors; and loved old times; and would not talk of moderns;--bade Yoomy sing old songs; bade Mohi rehearse old histories; bade Babbalanja tell of old ontologies; and commanded all, meanwhile, to drink his old, old wine.

So, all round we quaffed and quoted.

At last, we talked of old Homeric bards:--those who, ages back, harped, and begged, and groped their blinded way through all this charitable Mardi; receiving coppers then, and immortal glory now.

ABRAZZA--How came it, that they all were blind?

BABBALANJA--It was endemical, your Highness. Few grand poets have good eyes; for they needs blind must be, who ever gaze upon the sun. Vavona himself was blind: when, in the silence of his secret bower, he said--"I will build another world. Therein, let there be kings and slaves, philosophers and wits; whose checkered actions--strange, grotesque, and merry-sad, will entertain my idle moods." So, my lord, Vavona played at kings and crowns, and men and manners; and loved that lonely game to play.

1. the turf.
2. Media's
3. a bough.
4. on the grass
5. pages
6. Wine
7. dates
8. No.
9. goblets
10. rehearse old histories
11. sing old songs
12. tell of old ontologies
13. drink
14. old, old wine.
15. Yes.
16. old Homeric bards
17. Vavona
18. another world.
19. Yes.
20. Yes.

Numbered questions:
1. Where did someone stretch his legs?
2. Who's crown had he taken?
3. And placed it where?
4. Where did they rest?
5. Who poured the drink?
6. What was it?
7. What grew there?
8. Did they drink from flutes?
9. What then?
10. What was requested of Mohi?
11. And Yoomy?
12. What of babbalanja?
13. And what were they all to do?
14. Of what?
15. Did they do as requested of them?
16. Who was blind?
17. Anyone else?
18. What did he wish to create?
19. Would there be royalty there?
20. And wise men?

Q: CHAPTER XVI Old Man Coyote is Very Crafty.

Coyote has a crafty brain; His wits are sharp his ends to gain.

There is nothing in the world more true than that. Old Man Coyote has the craftiest brain of all the little people of the Green Forest or the Green Meadows. Sharp as are the wits of old Granny Fox, they are not quite so sharp as the wits of Old Man Coyote. If you want to fool him, you will have to get up very early in the morning, and then it is more than likely that you will be the one fooled, not he. There is very little going on around him that he doesn't know about. But once in a while something escapes him. The coming of Paddy the Beaver to the Green Forest was one of these things. He didn't know a thing about Paddy until Paddy had finished his dam and his house, and was cutting his supply of food for the winter.

You see, it was this way: When the Merry Little Breezes of Old Mother West Wind first heard what was going on in the Green Forest and hurried around over the Green Meadows and through the Green Forest to spread the news, as is their way, they took the greatest pains not to even hint it to Old Man Coyote because they were afraid that he would make trouble and perhaps drive Paddy away. The place that Paddy had chosen to build his dam was so deep in the Green Forest that Old Man Coyote seldom went that way. So it was that he knew nothing about Paddy, and Paddy knew nothing about him for some time.

1. yes
2. no
3. old Granny Fox
4. Old Man Coyote
5. get up very early in the morning
6. probably not
7. very little
8. once in a while
9. Paddy the Beaver
10. came to the Green Forest
11. when Paddy had finished his dam and his house
12. the Merry Little Breezes
13. they were afraid he would drive Paddy away
14. by making trouble
15. deep in the Green Forest
16. no
17. Old Man Coyote seldom went that way
18. cutting his supply of food for the winter
19. over the Green Meadows
20. to spread the news

Numbered questions:
1. Is coyote creative?
2. Is anyone more creative than him?
3. who is he compared to?
4. who is smarter?
5. how can you trick him?
6. will it work?
7. how often does something get past him?
8. when has it happened?
9. like who has done it?
10. what did he do?
11. when did coyote find out?
12. who didn't want him to find out?
13. why?
14. how?
15. where is Paddy's dam?
16. would it be easy for coyote to find?
17. why?
18. what else was Paddy doing while making the dam?
19. where did the Merry little Breezes travel?
20. why?