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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. What does the author name as a chief concern within Latin American countries?
(a) Color-coordination.
(b) Pride.
(c) Language.
(d) Communication.

2. What illegal practice drains Brazil of more than $100 million a year?
(a) Filibusters.
(b) Forgery.
(c) Polygamy.
(d) Smuggling.

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

4. What mineral, almost absent in the USA, is necessary to make aluminum?
(a) Hydrogen.
(b) Bauxite.
(c) Neon.
(d) Iron.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Out of the 70,000 Guatemalans that die each year, how many are children?

2. How did the USA attempt to curtail Brazil's petroleum trade?

3. What did Mariano Melgarejo force a British ambassador to drink as punishment for sneering at the local chichas?

4. In 1962, how did the US secure the Haitian delegate's vote at the OAS conference?

5. How did Asia acquire rubber tree seeds?

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