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

2. After gold, what was the next most important product Latin America could produce?
(a) Glass.
(b) Wheat.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Corn.

3. What metaphor does the author use for Latin American "aid"?
(a) A cart with no wheels.
(b) A pig with a wooden leg.
(c) A lamp with no bulb.
(d) A bird with a broken wing.

4. About how much of the price yielded by coffee going from Colombia to the US goes into the wages of the coffee workers?
(a) 10%.
(b) 5%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 0.5%

5. What is the world's chief fuel?
(a) Petroleum.
(b) Copper.
(c) Water.
(d) Iron.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does IMF stand for?

3. How much did foreign capitalists pay per acre for a huge tract of land in the Amazon?

4. What is expropriation?

5. Where does Bolivian tin have to go to be smelted?

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