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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. How many votes does Latin America have in the World Bank?
(a) None.
(b) One-fourth.
(c) One-sixteen.
(d) One-tenth.

2. About how much of the price yielded by coffee going from Colombia to the US goes into the wages of the coffee workers?
(a) 10%.
(b) 0.5%
(c) 5%.
(d) 25%.

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

4. In Brazil, what was Law 56,571, pass on July 6, 1965?
(a) This law annulled law 56,570.
(b) This law reserved the petrochemical industry for the state.
(c) This law put a tax on land.
(d) This law gave all citizens social security.

5. How much of Latin America was predicted to be in foreign creditors' hands by 1980?
(a) 80%.
(b) 100%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 50%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because of a deal with the USA, in how many years may Brazil run out of manganese for its own steel industry?

2. What is Lake Maracaibo?

3. In the 1890s, Chile's dependence on Great Britain was comparable to what other colonized country?

4. What is a "trade gap"?

5. How much has Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, grown in the last 30 years?

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