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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. The bourgeois' attempt at creating national industry has had a short and low flight, like a __________.
(a) Hen.
(b) Eagle.
(c) Bat.
(d) Elephant.

2. What does the author name as a chief concern within Latin American countries?
(a) Color-coordination.
(b) Pride.
(c) Language.
(d) Communication.

3. Which country has the best chance of establishing a Common Market of Latin America?
(a) Haiti.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Ecuador.
(d) Uruguay.

4. When was the last time the price of milk was controlled in Chile?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1792.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1654.

5. What was the significance of the land the USA purchased from Brazil?
(a) It is the location of a new US state.
(b) It cuts the Amazon off from the rest of the country.
(c) It is in the shape of Texas.
(d) It makes Brazil part of the USA.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of development is currently characteristic in Latin America?

2. How does Latin America make up for what it loses in price?

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

4. In Brazil, what was Law 56,571, pass on July 6, 1965?

5. What is "tied aid"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the three "heartening" examples Galeano provides about the people's reception of his book.

2. How, in Argentina, are political and economic revolutionaries dealt with?

3. Why do Latin American governments do nothing about all their funds flowing into foreign banks?

4. Why is it ironic that Haiti is the world's chief producer of baseballs?

5. How does the international market separate buyers?

6. Why did the USA begin to take over interests in Latin America?

7. Why, once prosperous, is Paraguay today an extremely poor and backward country?

8. How did Bolivia achieve general amnesty?

9. How were the railroad tracks of Latin America laid?

10. What is Brazil's relationship to Paraguay?

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