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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. For what industry is the USA most dependent on foreign imports?
(a) The meat and cattle industry.
(b) The ability to wage war.
(c) The textile industry.
(d) The paper industry.

2. After gold, what was the next most important product Latin America could produce?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Corn.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Glass.

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

4. How, in the 1800s, did Britain pay for most of its Latin American goods?
(a) It paid with textiles.
(b) It paid with silver.
(c) It paid with carbonate.
(d) It paid with gold.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many votes does Latin America have in the World Bank?

2. Why does the author feel that the USA was not plundered like Latin America?

3. What area of Latin America was specifically photographed by a US geological survey?

4. What law did Juan Domingo Peron impose in Argentina in compliance with minimum wage?

5. In 1968, what product did Uruguay agree to limit so the country could receive goods under the US agricultural surplus law?

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