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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 company owns Brazilian iron?

3. What is a "trade gap"?

4. In what year did General Velasco Alvarado, social and economic reformist, die?

5. How many votes does the USA have in the World Bank?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the Argentine financial center move to Buenos Aires?

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

3. What is protectionism?

4. Why, according to Galeano, has he written this book?

5. How does the international market separate buyers?

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

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

8. How does Latin America compensate for the low prices of its exports?

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

10. What are "negative lists"?

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

South America took the brunt of foreign interest ever since Columbus landed, but how was Central America drawn into the fray? What Central American exports continue to be of value to the international market? How was the land in Central America seized? Who is William Walker and what was his role in Central America? What was the situation in Nicaragua, and who was Jorge Ubico?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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