Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Eduardo Galeano
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Eduardo Galeano
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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. Without its acquisition of Brazilian gold from Portugal, what major conflict would England surely have lost?
(a) The Hundred Years' War.
(b) The American Revolutionary War.
(c) The Spanish War.
(d) The Napoleonic War.

2. What are the origins of the Indian women's style of dress?
(a) The styles were copied from peasant woman in Spain and imposed by Charles III.
(b) The styles were passed down through generations of native women.
(c) The styles were popularized by the Spanish nobility and worn by the natives as cast-offs.
(d) The styles were imposed in modern times by a fascist government.

3. How were the rubber workers in Brazil paid?
(a) They were paid in kind, with dried meat, manioc flour, and unrefined sugar.
(b) There were paid with visits to their families abroad.
(c) They were paid with gold coins on an hourly rate.
(d) They were paid with fine cloths and ribbons.

4. In Haiti, what does the rainbow symbolize?
(a) The rainbow symbolizes the European ships that came to take the Africans to Haiti so long ago.
(b) The rainbow symbolizes slaves who escaped to the west side of the island and reconstructed their African way of life.
(c) The rainbow symbolizes the largest sugar harvest on record anywhere in the world.
(d) The rainbow symbolizes the victory in the Haitian Civil War.

5. What do miners chew to counteract some effects of working in the tin mines?
(a) Coca leaves.
(b) Leather straps.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Wrigley's gum.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country basically owns the Central American banana industry?

2. What Aztec innovation in Mexico City is still visited by tourists today?

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

4. Especially in Guatemala, what is the structure of the labor force visibly identified with?

5. What famous saying was associated with Guanajuato?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "expropriation"?

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

3. What was discovered in the Minas Gerais region?

4. Why must the USA import so many raw materials from abroad?

5. How did the USA attempt to discourage the world market from purchasing oil from Brazil?

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

7. Why was Juan Jose Arevalo, who as President of Guatemala instituted new and better educational and labor standards, overthrown?

8. What drove Spain to finance Columbus' expedition?

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

10. What caused the collapse of the Chilean nitrate trade?

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