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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 region is the world's top coffee producer?
(a) Asia.
(b) Africa.
(c) Latin America.
(d) Australia.

2. Who does the author think behaves as a world policeman?
(a) The USA.
(b) Britain.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Spain.

3. Who was Augusto Cesar Sandino?
(a) He was a Mexican peasant who became President of Mexico.
(b) He was a Salvadoran coffee plantation owner.
(c) He was a Brazilian revolutionary famous for standing up to the government.
(d) He was a Nicaraguan guerilla who fought for the peasant's land rights.

4. Who usually financed the conquistadors' expeditions?
(a) The state or government.
(b) The native peoples of the New World.
(c) Businessmen or the conquistadors themselves.
(d) England's monarch.

5. How did the USA attempt to curtail Brazil's petroleum trade?
(a) They declared war and took all the oil fields.
(b) They gave Brazilian oil a grade "C."
(c) They asked Brazil nicely not to sell to anyone else.
(d) They provided oil to rival countries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mariano Melgarejo force a British ambassador to drink as punishment for sneering at the local chichas?

2. What is a "trade gap"?

3. What was the key to success in the sugar industry?

4. Who was Juan Vicente Gomez?

5. What resource replaced nitrate as Chile's main export?

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