View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Brazilian mineral deposit is essential to the steel industry?
(a) Silver.
(b) Guano.
(c) Oil.
(d) Manganese.

2. What important mine did Bolivia lose in the war?
(a) Buenos Aires, a guano mine.
(b) Quetzalcoatl, a tin mine.
(c) Las Ramblas, a silver mine.
(d) Chuquicamata, a copper mine.

3. What country basically owns the Central American banana industry?
(a) The USA.
(b) Spain.
(c) Portugal.
(d) Brazil.

4. What are the environmental problems with many of Latin America's cash crops?
(a) Many of the cash crops are eaten by animals.
(b) Many of the cash crops are failing and leaving large swaths of empty land.
(c) Coffee, sugarcane, and cotton all require mass deforestation.
(d) Coffee, sugarcane, and cotton are primarily consumed by the farmers.

5. What country is the top petroleum exporter in the world (at the time the book was written)?
(a) Afghanistan.
(b) Venezuela.
(c) Iran.
(d) Brazil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is guano?

2. What does Alcoa stand for?

3. Who was Tupac Amaru?

4. What law did Juan Domingo Peron impose in Argentina in compliance with minimum wage?

5. How long did it take to squander the nitrate deposits in Peru?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 279 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample