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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. From where does imperialist capital capture foreign markets?
(a) They capture from the sea.
(b) They capture from within.
(c) They capture from outside.
(d) They capture from the forest.

2. What nickname does the author give the USA?
(a) The vast unknowable.
(b) The great consumer.
(c) The world policeman.
(d) The end of iron.

3. 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.

4. How did the USA attempt to curtail Brazil's petroleum trade?
(a) They declared war and took all the oil fields.
(b) They gave Brazilian oil a grade "C."
(c) They provided oil to rival countries.
(d) They asked Brazil nicely not to sell to anyone else.

5. Where does Bolivian tin have to go to be smelted?
(a) New York.
(b) Liverpool.
(c) Buenos Aires.
(d) Beijing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "trade gap"?

2. How much of US investment in Latin America is in Mexico?

3. Who was the English monarch at the time of this incident?

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

5. In Brazil, what was Law 56,571, pass on July 6, 1965?

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