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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Out of the 70,000 Guatemalans that die each year, how many are children?
(a) 45,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 30,000.

2. What is expropriation?
(a) It is the government's practice of usurping the Indians and claiming their lands.
(b) It is the tithe the Indians are expected to pay the government.
(c) It is the separation of the native peoples from the main population.
(d) It is the Indian's policies of attacking government outposts relentlessly.

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

4. In what year did General Velasco Alvarado, social and economic reformist, die?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1792.
(c) 1654.
(d) 1968.

5. What item(s), smuggled out of Brazil, costs the country about $100 million a year?
(a) Diamonds.
(b) Water.
(c) Gold.
(d) Sheep.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which country has the best chance of establishing a Common Market of Latin America?

2. Why does Galeano claim torture exists in dictatorships of Latin America?

3. What country is the top petroleum exporter in the world (at the time the book was written)?

4. What law did Juan Domingo Peron impose in Argentina in compliance with minimum wage?

5. Who is General Hugo Banzer?

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