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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do miners chew to counteract some effects of working in the tin mines?
(a) Leather straps.
(b) Coca leaves.
(c) Wrigley's gum.
(d) Tobacco.

3. What year did Brazil abolish slavery?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1701.
(d) 1865.

4. What country basically owns the Central American banana industry?
(a) The USA.
(b) Portugal.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Spain.

5. What resource is exploited in modern-day Potosi?
(a) Tin.
(b) Gold.
(c) Diamonds.
(d) Silver.

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

7. How much has Caracas grown in thirty years?
(a) 20%.
(b) .5%.
(c) 700%.
(d) 550%.

8. Without its acquisition of Brazilian gold from Portugal, what major conflict would England surely have lost?
(a) The Hundred Years' War.
(b) The American Revolutionary War.
(c) The Spanish War.
(d) The Napoleonic War.

9. Who is the "king of tin"?
(a) Simon Ituri Patino.
(b) Tupac Amaru.
(c) Jose Manuel Balmaceda.
(d) John Thomas North.

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

11. What nickname does the author give the USA?
(a) The great consumer.
(b) The vast unknowable.
(c) The end of iron.
(d) The world policeman.

12. In Haiti, what does the rainbow symbolize?
(a) The rainbow symbolizes the largest sugar harvest on record anywhere in the world.
(b) The rainbow symbolizes the victory in the Haitian Civil War.
(c) The rainbow symbolizes the European ships that came to take the Africans to Haiti so long ago.
(d) The rainbow symbolizes slaves who escaped to the west side of the island and reconstructed their African way of life.

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

14. How much of the native population of Latin American died of diseases contracted from the invaders?
(a) Over half of the population died.
(b) Only ten people died.
(c) One-third of the population died.
(d) One-sixteenth of the population died.

15. What illegal practice drains Brazil of more than $100 million a year?
(a) Polygamy.
(b) Filibusters.
(c) Forgery.
(d) Smuggling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was William Walker?

2. What is the most universal health problem in Latin America?

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

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

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

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