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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Guatemalan tyrant Jorge Ubico's idol?
(a) King Ferdinand of Spain.
(b) Henry V.
(c) Himmler.
(d) Napoleon.

2. What is silicosis?
(a) A policy of government that excludes Bolivia from the international market.
(b) A region of Bolivia that is completely uninhabited.
(c) A disease of the lungs that kills many Latin American tin miners.
(d) A condition where the sufferer cannot stop laughing.

3. Why does Galeano claim to have written this book?
(a) He wants to make it mandatory for every dictator to read.
(b) He wants to have a talk with people.
(c) He wants to throw it at the USA.
(d) He thought it would be fun.

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

5. How much of US investment in Latin America is in Mexico?
(a) One-third.
(b) One-fourth.
(c) Half.
(d) One-eigth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Volkswagen affiliate in Sweden do for every car it sells?

2. What labor force did the author eyewitness?

3. Why does the author feel that the USA was not plundered like Latin America?

4. In the 1800s, what country was the chief importer into Latin America?

5. Without its acquisition of Brazilian gold from Portugal, what major conflict would England surely have lost?

(see the answer key)

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