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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. Which US President announced a policy of human rights for Latin America?

2. What is the great natural resource of Lake Maracaibo?

3. What metaphor does the author use for Latin American "aid"?

4. Which countries were involved in the War of the Pacific, 1879?

5. What percentage of their wages did Haitians lose between 1971 and 1975?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the USA get the Haitian ambassador to change his vote at an OAS conference?

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

3. What country holds most of Latin America's loans, and what percentage does this country hold?

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

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

6. Why was the nitrate industry in Latin America abruptly halted?

7. Has the nationalization of oil been beneficial for Venezuela?

8. Who was General Velasco Alvarado and what did he do?

9. After Latin America was liberated from Spain, what country inherited its reins?

10. Where is most of the USA's investment in Latin America concentrated?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Jose Artigas? What is agrarian reform? What policies did he attempt to put into place? What world forces did he oppose? What was the agrarian reform of 1815? What ultimately happened to Artigas? How is Artigas view in Latin America today?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one Latin American revolutionary to explore. Who was this person? What country did he belong to? What major issues did he represent? What is the current public opinions of this person? What are the author's opinions of this person? What are your opinions of this person? Be sure to use properly cited quotations from the text.

Essay Topic 3

The author has a powerful point of view throughout the text. Choose three specific instances that you feel the author is making his voice clear. What are his opinions throughout the work? How are is points effective for the reader?

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