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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Seven Years After.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the author compare Latin America's capacity for surprise?
(a) Pandora's box.
(b) Fool's gold.
(c) Guerilla warfare.
(d) A jack-in-the-box.

2. In 1975, how many times greater was Latin America's external debt than in 1968?
(a) Ten times greater.
(b) Two times greater.
(c) Twenty times greater.
(d) Three times greater.

3. What rationalization was used by the conquerors who enslaved the native populations?
(a) They claimed the Indians enjoyed the work.
(b) They declared the Indians owed them labor because of their defeat in the war.
(c) They denied that Indians had souls, and therefore were no better than beasts of burden.
(d) They would share the wealth with the Indians eventually.

4. What does the Volkswagen affiliate in Sweden do for every car it sells?
(a) It takes a vacation.
(b) It plants a tree.
(c) It throws a party.
(d) It pays someone in Brazil.

5. What are the environmental problems with many of Latin America's cash crops?
(a) Many of the cash crops are failing and leaving large swaths of empty land.
(b) Coffee, sugarcane, and cotton all require mass deforestation.
(c) Coffee, sugarcane, and cotton are primarily consumed by the farmers.
(d) Many of the cash crops are eaten by animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the nitrate King?

2. After the war between Bolivia and Paraguay, who eventually claimed the land Paraguay won in the conflict?

3. What item(s), smuggled out of Brazil, costs the country about $100 million a year?

4. What was President Jose Manuel Balmaceda's goal for Chile?

5. How did American interests in Venezuelan crude oil attempt to derail the Brazilian crude oil economy?

(see the answer key)

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