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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What analogy does Paul Baran use to explain the division of labor with the arrival of capitalism?
(a) The mother and the son.
(b) The actor and the audience.
(c) The horseman and the horse.
(d) The priest and his congregation.

2. Who was Guatemalan tyrant Jorge Ubico's idol?
(a) Henry V.
(b) King Ferdinand of Spain.
(c) Himmler.
(d) Napoleon.

3. Who was Aleijadinho?
(a) A Brazilian slave who worked in the diamond mines.
(b) A Portuguese merchant who exported gold from Brazil.
(c) One of the greatest artists in Brazil's history, nicknamed "Little Cripple."
(d) The governor of Minas Gerais.

4. In the 1890s, Chile's dependence on Great Britain was comparable to what other colonized country?
(a) India.
(b) Australia.
(c) China.
(d) Morocco.

5. To what does the author compare Latin America's capacity for surprise?
(a) Guerilla warfare.
(b) Pandora's box.
(c) Fool's gold.
(d) A jack-in-the-box.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Juan Jose Arevalo's government overthrown by Rodolfo Armas, backed by the USA?

2. How were the rubber workers in Brazil paid?

3. How much silver was retained in the Spanish economy from 1540-1550?

4. How did American interests in Venezuelan crude oil attempt to derail the Brazilian crude oil economy?

5. Who was Tupac Amaru?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who were the miners of Minas Gerais, and where did they come from?

2. What caused the War of the Pacific, 1879-1893?

3. How has the coffee industry hurt the people of Latin America?

4. Though coffee and petroleum are invaluable on a world market, why does Latin America still not profit from having these resources in abundance?

5. Who is Jose Artigas and what did he accomplish?

6. What is the significance of the rainbow in Haiti?

7. Why can many Latin American countries not sustain the developments of manufacture?

8. What were some of the major accomplishments, etc, that Latin American sugar and slave trade contributed to directly?

9. Describe some of the technological accomplishments of the original inhabitants of Latin American--the Mayans, Incas, and Aztecs.

10. How did the USA attempt to derail the Brazilian oil market?

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