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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alcoa stand for?
(a) The Aluminum Company of America.
(b) The Andean Living Confederates of America.
(c) The Arbitrary Concerns of America.
(d) The Argentine Life Coalition of America.

2. How does Latin America make up for what it loses in price?
(a) Export.
(b) Quantity.
(c) Dictatorships.
(d) Land wars.

3. Mexican cattle consume more _________ than the campesinos who tend to them?
(a) Land.
(b) Air.
(c) Protein.
(d) Grass.

4. To what does Galeano compare General Pinochet?
(a) To Monet's "Water Lilies."
(b) To Goya's "black art".
(c) To Picasso's "Guernica".
(d) To Kissinger's "Hunger Wages".

5. What major company quickened the downfall of Brazilian tape factory Adesite?
(a) Scotch Tape.
(b) Alcoa.
(c) TJ Max.
(d) Mead Johnson Tape.

6. Why does Galeano claim to have written this book?
(a) He wants to make it mandatory for every dictator to read.
(b) He wants to have a talk with people.
(c) He wants to throw it at the USA.
(d) He thought it would be fun.

7. What does Galeano say is the first condition for changing reality?
(a) Reading an instruction manuel.
(b) Obtaining foreign aid.
(c) Understanding it.
(d) Purchasing firepower.

8. In Brazil, what was Law 56,570, passed on July 6, 1965?
(a) This law made divorce unlawful.
(b) This law made gauchos legal servants of the state.
(c) This law freed Brazil from all foreign debt.
(d) This law reserved the petrochemical industry for the state.

9. What is guano?
(a) A traditional delicacy.
(b) A specific type of poncho.
(c) Brazilian currency.
(d) Bird excrement.

10. What is a "trade gap"?
(a) The gap between the pier and the boat when transporting goods.
(b) The deficit in the US economy.
(c) The difference between import needs and the income from exports.
(d) The trading opportunities that are being missed between the east and west.

11. What does IMF stand for?
(a) Intercontinental Movement Focus.
(b) Interposing Malaga's Forests.
(c) International Monetary Fund.
(d) Istabul's Major Front.

12. What percentage of their wages did Haitians lose between 1971 and 1975?
(a) 50%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 1.5%.
(d) 25%.

13. Where is the copper in Chile located?
(a) At the very tops of the mountains.
(b) In the forest floors.
(c) Along the Andean slopes.
(d) Under the seabed.

14. How much of US investment in Latin America is in Mexico?
(a) One-eigth.
(b) One-third.
(c) One-fourth.
(d) Half.

15. Where does Bolivian tin have to go to be smelted?
(a) New York.
(b) Buenos Aires.
(c) Liverpool.
(d) Beijing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much has Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, grown in the last 30 years?

2. Whom does Galeano claim has written the official histories?

3. How, in the 1800s, did Britain pay for most of its Latin American goods?

4. What item(s), smuggled out of Brazil, costs the country about $100 million a year?

5. Which US President announced a policy of human rights for Latin America?

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