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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What area's maps were given to private concerns with the aid of a US government geological survey?
(a) Bolivia.
(b) Amazonia.
(c) The Andes.
(d) Uruguay.

2. Concerning petroleum, where is the most money to be made?
(a) The most money is made for the middleman.
(b) The most money is made for the laborer.
(c) The most money is made for the consuming country.
(d) The most money is made for the producing country.

3. What resource was at the center of the city of Potosi's prosperity?
(a) Salt.
(b) Gold.
(c) Silver.
(d) Sugar.

4. What region is the world's top coffee producer?
(a) Australia.
(b) Africa.
(c) Latin America.
(d) Asia.

5. Who was Augusto Cesar Sandino?
(a) He was a Brazilian revolutionary famous for standing up to the government.
(b) He was a Salvadoran coffee plantation owner.
(c) He was a Mexican peasant who became President of Mexico.
(d) He was a Nicaraguan guerilla who fought for the peasant's land rights.

6. What region took over the rubber industry from Brazil in 1913?
(a) Australia.
(b) Indonesia.
(c) Finland.
(d) Asia.

7. How were the rubber workers in Brazil paid?
(a) There were paid with visits to their families abroad.
(b) They were paid with gold coins on an hourly rate.
(c) They were paid with fine cloths and ribbons.
(d) They were paid in kind, with dried meat, manioc flour, and unrefined sugar.

8. After the war between Bolivia and Paraguay, who eventually claimed the land Paraguay won in the conflict?
(a) Argentina.
(b) The USA.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Bolivia.

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

10. What was the Chaco War of 1932-1935?
(a) An Indian-rights war between Chile and Peru.
(b) A silver-sparked war between Argentina and Ecuador.
(c) A petroleum-sparked war between Bolivia and Paraguay.
(d) A manganese war between Brazil and Argentina.

11. What are the origins of the Indian women's style of dress?
(a) The styles were copied from peasant woman in Spain and imposed by Charles III.
(b) The styles were imposed in modern times by a fascist government.
(c) The styles were passed down through generations of native women.
(d) The styles were popularized by the Spanish nobility and worn by the natives as cast-offs.

12. What was Colombia paid for the erection of the Panama Canal?
(a) 10 million dollars.
(b) 25 million dollars.
(c) 5 million dollars.
(d) 50 million dollars.

13. How much did foreign capitalists pay per acre for a huge tract of land in the Amazon?
(a) $50.00
(b) $.07.
(c) $10.00
(d) $.99

14. Who usually financed the conquistadors' expeditions?
(a) England's monarch.
(b) The state or government.
(c) The native peoples of the New World.
(d) Businessmen or the conquistadors themselves.

15. What do coffee and petroleum have in common?
(a) They each foster higher profits for the consuming country than for the producing country.
(b) They are each rapidly falling in price and usefulness.
(c) They each need very particular growing conditions.
(d) They are each dark in color and used all over the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Guatemalan tyrant Jorge Ubico's idol?

2. For whom did Montezuma mistake the invading Europeans?

3. What rationalization was used by the conquerors who enslaved the native populations?

4. About how much of the price yielded by coffee going from Colombia to the US goes into the wages of the coffee workers?

5. How did the USA attempt to curtail Brazil's petroleum trade?

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