A person of mixed European and Indian blood in Latin America is called a

Answer: (b) Mestizo

Mestizo = European + Amerindian (Indian) ancestry.

The idea

Here, “Indian” refers to the indigenous peoples of the Americas. The question uses a historical term for mixed ancestry in Latin America. Such labels describe old social classifications and do not divide humanity into fixed biological races.

Why the others are wrong

(a) Mulatto = European + African.

(c) Meiji is a Japanese era.

(d) Mau Mau was a Kenyan uprising.

The trap

“Indian” here means Amerindian, not from India.

Elimination technique

Read “Indian” in its Latin American setting. Meiji names a Japanese era and Mau Mau a Kenyan movement, so neither is an ancestry category; distinguish the two remaining historical labels by the ancestry named.

Also know

Latin America includes much of the Americas where Spanish or Portuguese became dominant; Brazil is mainly Portuguese-speaking. Indigenous American peoples include Maya, Quechua and Aymara communities. Language, ancestry, citizenship and cultural identity describe different aspects of a person.