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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through he Invisible Sources of Power.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What country is the top petroleum exporter in the world (at the time the book was written)?
(a) Venezuela.
(b) Afghanistan.
(c) Iran.
(d) Brazil.

2. What mineral, almost absent in the USA, is necessary to make aluminum?
(a) Hydrogen.
(b) Neon.
(c) Bauxite.
(d) Iron.

3. In which country did Emilian Zapata introduce radical agrarian reform?
(a) Southen Mexico.
(b) Northern Brazil.
(c) Western Peru.
(d) Central Honduras.

4. What Aztec innovation in Mexico City is still visited by tourists today?
(a) The floating gardens.
(b) The golden mask.
(c) The pyramids of Cairo.
(d) The great sundial.

5. How did Asia acquire rubber tree seeds?
(a) Chinese merchants came to Brazil and took the seeds back.
(b) Henry Wickham smuggled seeds out of Brazil.
(c) The trees were discovered deep in the forest.
(d) Christopher Columbus took seeds back for Ferdinand and Isabella.

Short Answer Questions

1. What resources caused the boom of the Minas Gerais region?

2. What did Andre Gunder Frank discover upon analyzing the history of Latin America's "metropolis-satellite" relationships?

3. What are the environmental problems with many of Latin America's cash crops?

4. What illegal practice drains Brazil of more than $100 million a year?

5. How did American interests in Venezuelan crude oil attempt to derail the Brazilian crude oil economy?

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