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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much did foreign capitalists pay per acre for a huge tract of land in the Amazon?

2. Concerning petroleum, where is the most money to be made?

3. What area's maps were given to private concerns with the aid of a US government geological survey?

4. What resource is exploited in modern-day Potosi?

5. After the war between Bolivia and Paraguay, who eventually claimed the land Paraguay won in the conflict?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What illegal activity costs Brazil upwards of $100 million a year?

4. What is silicosis?

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

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

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

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

9. Why, according to the author, has the USA avoided many of the problems Latin America has faced?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What happened in the city of Potosi? What was Potosi's main export? Could Potosi be an example of a "metropolis-satellite" relationship? Why or why not? Who or whom mined the silver in Potosi? How were the veins of Potosi stripped? What is Potosi like today?

Essay Topic 2

According to "Seven Years Later," has Latin America made any progress since the novel was originally published? Why or why not? Have any areas gained ground at all? Have any areas lost ground? How, internationally, can the world market attribute to Latin America's advancement?

Essay Topic 3

Why has the USA historically benefited by "not being important," while Latin America's fate has been seal by its importance? What kinds of resources are found in Latin America that are not found in the USA? In the beginning, how was the colonization of the USA different from the colonization of Latin America? Name radical differences in the economic policies of the USA and Latin America.

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