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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. In Haiti, what does the rainbow symbolize?
(a) The rainbow symbolizes the European ships that came to take the Africans to Haiti so long ago.
(b) The rainbow symbolizes slaves who escaped to the west side of the island and reconstructed their African way of life.
(c) The rainbow symbolizes the victory in the Haitian Civil War.
(d) The rainbow symbolizes the largest sugar harvest on record anywhere in the world.

2. Which country has the best chance of establishing a Common Market of Latin America?
(a) Haiti.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Ecuador.
(d) Uruguay.

3. Where is the copper in Chile located?
(a) Under the seabed.
(b) Along the Andean slopes.
(c) At the very tops of the mountains.
(d) In the forest floors.

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

5. What is the Haber process?
(a) A process that produces nitrate by fixing nitrogen from the air.
(b) A process that economically could fix Brazil.
(c) A process by which Bolivia vowed to uphold.
(d) A process by which iron is purified.

Short Answer Questions

1. What monies has the banking industry diverted from Latin America?

2. How much of the native population of Latin American died of diseases contracted from the invaders?

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

4. What mineral, almost absent in the USA, is necessary to make aluminum?

5. What great innovations did the sugar slave trade directly fund?

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