Many Brazilians warm up to the Games despite nation’s woes

Q: In spite of the Zika epidemic, a severe economic recession and political turmoil amid charges of corruption, many people in Brazil have dropped strong opposition to the Summer Games and embraced the Olympics with swelling national pride. Where is Brazil?

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Q: What city is the host of the 2016 Olympics?

A. Amazonia

B. Brasilia

C. Rio de Janeiro

D. Sao Paulo

Q: While Games inspired even skeptics, Brazil’s Senate voted last week in the nation’s capital to hold an impeachment trial for their suspended president, Dilma Rousseff. What is the capital of Brazil?

A. Amazonia

B. Brasilia

C. Rio de Janeiro

D. Sao Paulo

Q: Brazil’s first gold medal in the Games was won by a woman from the City of God, one of Rio’s impoverished slums which are known in Brazil as . . .

A. Barrios

B. Banlieues

C. Ciudad perdida

D. Favelas

Q: The Rio Olympics are the first summer games to be held entirely during the winter. What Olympic summer games started during the winter but finished in the spring?

A. 2000 Sydney

B. 1988 Seoul

C. 1968 Mexico City

D. 1932 Los Angeles


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