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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 was guano used for in Europe?
(a) Clothing blends.
(b) Currency.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Fertilizer.

2. What resource is exploited in modern-day Potosi?
(a) Diamonds.
(b) Tin.
(c) Gold.
(d) Silver.

3. What law did Juan Domingo Peron impose in Argentina in compliance with minimum wage?
(a) The Agrarian Revolution.
(b) The Latafundios Abolition Act.
(c) The Statute of the Peon.
(d) The Agricultural Division Act.

4. How much of US investment in Latin America is in Mexico?
(a) One-eigth.
(b) One-fourth.
(c) One-third.
(d) Half.

5. For whom did Montezuma mistake the invading Europeans?
(a) For his enemies in the south.
(b) For King Ferdinand himself.
(c) For the god Quetzalcoatl.
(d) For the god Tenochtitlan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is silicosis?

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

3. Who was the person to coin the phrase "knowledge is power"?

4. About how much of the price yielded by coffee going from Colombia to the US goes into the wages of the coffee workers?

5. What analogy does Paul Baran use to explain the division of labor with the arrival of capitalism?

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