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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Contemporary Structure of Plunder.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two Latin American countries have the highest infant mortality rates?
(a) Argentina and Brazil.
(b) Uruguay and Paraguay.
(c) Panama and Mexico.
(d) Haiti and Bolivia.

2. To what does the author compare Latin America's capacity for surprise?
(a) Fool's gold.
(b) Pandora's box.
(c) A jack-in-the-box.
(d) Guerilla warfare.

3. Who was Guatemalan tyrant Jorge Ubico's idol?
(a) Himmler.
(b) King Ferdinand of Spain.
(c) Napoleon.
(d) Henry V.

4. What was President Jose Manuel Balmaceda's goal for Chile?
(a) He wanted to export more gold and silver.
(b) He wanted to nationalize Chile's nitrate exports.
(c) He wanted to compete with Brazil's rubber industry.
(d) He wanted to be elected to British parliament.

5. Who was William Walker?
(a) He was a Haitian revolutionary who led a rebellion against landowners.
(b) He was a British explorer who ventured deep into the Amazon.
(c) He was a US historian who sought to tell the truth about the history of Latin America.
(d) He was a US assassin who made his way through Central America, eventually taking Panama for the Panama Canal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "tied aid"?

2. What great innovations did the sugar slave trade directly fund?

3. Why does the author feel that the USA was not plundered like Latin America?

4. If slaves arrived in the colony and were too ill to work, what happened to them?

5. What states, originally belonging to Mexico, did the USA claim?

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