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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 year did Columbus "discover" America?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1492.
(c) 1542.
(d) 1329.

2. In Brazil, what was Law 56,570, passed on July 6, 1965?
(a) This law made gauchos legal servants of the state.
(b) This law freed Brazil from all foreign debt.
(c) This law reserved the petrochemical industry for the state.
(d) This law made divorce unlawful.

3. What great innovations did the sugar slave trade directly fund?
(a) Britain's Great Western Railway.
(b) The Aztec Temples.
(c) The invention of the automobile.
(d) The Spanish trade route.

4. In the 1890s, Chile's dependence on Great Britain was comparable to what other colonized country?
(a) Morocco.
(b) China.
(c) India.
(d) Australia.

5. What is silicosis?
(a) A phrase the gauchos use when discussing cattle.
(b) A process by which nitrates are pulled out of the air.
(c) An economic policy that promotes nationalization.
(d) A disease of the lungs caused by working in tin mines.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Columbus think he had landed, even during his third voyage?

2. What was the first Latin American country to install an oil refinery?

3. From the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century, what peoples were the center of the slave trade?

4. How long did it take to squander the nitrate deposits in Peru?

5. What is the top petroleum exporter in Latin America?

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