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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 illegal practice drains Brazil of more than $100 million a year?
(a) Forgery.
(b) Polygamy.
(c) Smuggling.
(d) Filibusters.

2. Concerning petroleum, where is the most money to be made?
(a) The most money is made for the middleman.
(b) The most money is made for the laborer.
(c) The most money is made for the consuming country.
(d) The most money is made for the producing country.

3. How much has Caracas grown in thirty years?
(a) .5%.
(b) 700%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 550%.

4. What labor force did the author eyewitness?
(a) The silver mines of Potosi.
(b) The tin mines of Bolivia.
(c) The rubber plantations of Brazil.
(d) The oil refineries of Uruguay.

5. What is expropriation?
(a) It is the separation of the native peoples from the main population.
(b) It is the tithe the Indians are expected to pay the government.
(c) It is the government's practice of usurping the Indians and claiming their lands.
(d) It is the Indian's policies of attacking government outposts relentlessly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country is the top petroleum exporter in the world (at the time the book was written)?

2. Who was Aleijadinho?

3. In Haiti, what does the rainbow symbolize?

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

5. How much silver was retained in the Spanish economy from 1540-1550?

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