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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 is the great natural resource of Lake Maracaibo?
(a) Silver.
(b) Oil.
(c) Bauxite.
(d) Tin.

2. What do coffee and petroleum have in common?
(a) They each need very particular growing conditions.
(b) They are each dark in color and used all over the world.
(c) They each foster higher profits for the consuming country than for the producing country.
(d) They are each rapidly falling in price and usefulness.

3. What was the first Latin American country to install an oil refinery?
(a) Uruguay.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Venezuela.
(d) Paraguay.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Haiti, what does the rainbow symbolize?

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

3. How much has Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, grown in the last 30 years?

4. What country basically owns the Central American banana industry?

5. Who was Aleijadinho?

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