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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What natural resource was important to the Middle East?
(a) Water.
(b) Coal.
(c) Wood.
(d) Wind.
2. What did Panama receive at the end of Chapter 17?
(a) A national park.
(b) A payment from MAIN.
(c) The canal.
(d) An increase in tourism.
3. Who died at the start of Chapter 27?
(a) Jaime Roldós Aguilera.
(b) Osvaldo Hurtado.
(c) Omar Torrijos.
(d) Ronald Reagan.
4. What did the employees of MAIN think sweatshops would do?
(a) Provide bad working conditions.
(b) Help make poor people money.
(c) Destroy people's lives.
(d) Create a system of slavery.
5. What did the Islamic mob seize in order to have the Shah returned to Iran?
(a) The Shah's home.
(b) Prince W.'s palace.
(c) The American Embassy.
(d) The Iranian Embassy.
6. Why did the United States ignore the problem in Venezuela?
(a) They were at war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
(b) They had no power in Venezuela.
(c) They had too much money invested in Venezuela.
(d) They did not know there was a problem.
7. Where did the United States invade in Chapter 30?
(a) Panama.
(b) Saudi Arabia.
(c) Chilie.
(d) Ecuador.
8. What did Perkin's article, "Colonialism in Panama has No Place in 1975," suggest that Panama receive?
(a) A chance to run their own government.
(b) Military aid.
(c) Liberation.
(d) The canal.
9. What would happen if nations asked the United States to repay their debt?
(a) Nothing would happen.
(b) The United States would pay back the loans.
(c) The United States has no debt.
(d) The United States would collapse.
10. What caused Venezuela's budget to quadruple?
(a) The 1986 oil embargo.
(b) The death of Omar Torrijos.
(c) The death of Jaime Roldós.
(d) The 1973 oil embargo.
11. What event happened at the end of Chapter 31?
(a) The Vietnam war.
(b) Jenkins' fortieth birthday.
(c) The election of Obama.
(d) September 11th.
12. What did Osvaldo Hurtado allow to happen when he became president?
(a) Public executions.
(b) He allowed the Summer Institute of Linguistics to return.
(c) He allowed MAIN to establish offices in Ecuador.
(d) For the people of Ecuador to invest in Oil fields.
13. What story suggests that people need to become a "conscious species"?
(a) "The Prophecy of the Lion and Cougar."
(b) "The Prophecy of the Condor and Eagle."
(c) "The Prophecy of the Cat and Mouse."
(d) "The Prophecy of the Condor and Fox."
14. What was Perkins' response to his mentor being fired?
(a) Perkins was relieved.
(b) Perkins was thrilled.
(c) Perkins was devastated.
(d) Perkins cried.
15. What did Farhad's father claim the United States sowed in the Middle East?
(a) The seeds of rebellion.
(b) The seeds of love.
(c) The seeds of hate.
(d) The seeds of peace.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is oil based on?
2. Who is Yamin?
3. Who is Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini?
4. Who is Doc?
5. With whom did Harken Energy Corporation receive drilling rights?
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