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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Contemporary Structure of Plunder.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What labor force did the author eyewitness?
(a) The oil refineries of Uruguay.
(b) The tin mines of Bolivia.
(c) The silver mines of Potosi.
(d) The rubber plantations of Brazil.

2. How did American interests in Venezuelan crude oil attempt to derail the Brazilian crude oil economy?
(a) They rated Brazilian crude oil a "C".
(b) They tried to blackmail the USSR into only using Venezuelan oil.
(c) They attempted a blockade of the Brazilian coastline.
(d) They created a conflict with the Brazilian government.

3. What great innovations did the sugar slave trade directly fund?
(a) The Aztec Temples.
(b) Britain's Great Western Railway.
(c) The invention of the automobile.
(d) The Spanish trade route.

4. After gold, what was the next most important product Latin America could produce?
(a) Corn.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Glass.
(d) Wheat.

5. What nickname does the author give the USA?
(a) The great consumer.
(b) The end of iron.
(c) The vast unknowable.
(d) The world policeman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was Artigas's agrarian reform--"free land, free man," instituted?

2. What did John Thomas North and his partner Robert Harvey purchase for the war effort?

3. What practice have Protestant church missionaries encouraged to Amazonian peoples?

4. What street took the place of Lombard Street in Latin America?

5. Who was Juan Vicente Gomez?

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