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RH.CCS.7 Grades 6-12: Students are asked to locate a country or geographical area on a map, connecting information with a specific location. Then, students answer a series of quiz questions based on a current news event happening in that location. Students must combine their prior knowledge with information presented in the question to determine the correct answers.

Colombia’s frustrated voters to choose between ‘outsiders’ -- 06/13/2022

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Q: On Sunday, a leftist former guerrilla will face off against a wealthy right-wing businessman in a runoff election for president of Colombia, where disenchanted voters rejected establishment candidates in the first round of presidential voting on May 29. Where is Colombia?

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Q: Voters are fed up with incumbent governments in a region ravaged by the economic woes during the pandemic. A Marxist rural schoolteacher and political neophyte won the presidency last year in Peru, which borders Colombia to the ...

A. North

B. East

C. South

D. West



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