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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of Latin American loans are provided by the USA?
(a) 50%.
(b) None.
(c) 30%.
(d) 100%.

2. What was Order 289 of 1965 in Brazil?
(a) It was an order demanding the ban of the text.
(b) It was an order which allowed foreign concerns to get loans at 7 or 8% interest.
(c) It was an order demanding foreigners pay up to 50% in interest.
(d) It was an order to strike on Panama, in protest of the canal.

3. In 1975, how many times greater was Latin America's external debt than in 1968?
(a) Three times greater.
(b) Ten times greater.
(c) Two times greater.
(d) Twenty times greater.

4. What is dynamic industry?
(a) The process of making dynamite.
(b) The manufacture of colored dyes.
(c) The production of foreign goods.
(d) The production of intermediate and capital goods.

5. How many votes, compared to the USA, do Latin American countries have in IMF?
(a) More than half.
(b) Less than half.
(c) 13.
(d) More than two-thirds.

6. How much of Latin America was predicted to be in foreign creditors' hands by 1980?
(a) 50%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 100%.
(d) 80%.

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

8. In Uruguay, how many workers died in the railway gelignite explosion of 1977?
(a) None.
(b) 7.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

9. What is the great natural resource of Lake Maracaibo?
(a) Oil.
(b) Silver.
(c) Bauxite.
(d) Tin.

10. From where does Galeano think that modern-day slavers operate?
(a) Ivory towers.
(b) Ministries of labor.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Slaves ships.

11. What replaced nitrates as the pillar of Chile's economy?
(a) Hides.
(b) Copper.
(c) Textiles.
(d) Mercury.

12. What monies has the banking industry diverted from Latin America?
(a) Its checking accounts.
(b) Its savings.
(c) Its loan interest.
(d) Its hedge funds.

13. Instead of hospitals and schools, what did the oil boom of Ecuador bring to the country?
(a) Air conditioning.
(b) Color televisions.
(c) Audis.
(d) Highly bred dogs.

14. In Argentina, what often happens to the politically outspoken?
(a) They disappear.
(b) They are given professorships.
(c) They are publicly condemned.
(d) They broadcast on television.

15. Which US President announced a policy of human rights for Latin America?
(a) President Henry Ford.
(b) President George Washington.
(c) President Jimmy Carter.
(d) President William Taft.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Galeano hope will ultimately be the result of all Latin America's destruction?

2. What, according to Galeano, is Latin America's real export?

3. What was the first Latin American country to install an oil refinery?

4. What does the author name as a chief concern within Latin American countries?

5. What area of Latin America was specifically photographed by a US geological survey?

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