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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Treaty of Tordesillas accomplish?
(a) It granted protection to the Indians.
(b) It declared war on France for illegal occupation.
(c) It allowed Portugal to occupy certain Latin American territories.
(d) It allowed Portugal to teach the Indians religion.

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

3. Who was Miguel Hidalgo?
(a) He was a Mexican priest who led a rebellion, attempted to regain the Indian's ancient lands and incite social change.
(b) He was a Spanish merchant who shamelessly exploited the native people.
(c) He was a Spanish writer who, at great risk to himself, published a treatise on the conqueror's crimes.
(d) He was an Aztec leader who united Indian groups and marched on Mexico City.

4. What law did Juan Domingo Peron impose in Argentina in compliance with minimum wage?
(a) The Statute of the Peon.
(b) The Agrarian Revolution.
(c) The Latafundios Abolition Act.
(d) The Agricultural Division Act.

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

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

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

8. What famous saying was associated with Guanajuato?
(a) "A city of wisdom."
(b) "A stitch in time saves nine."
(c) "Father a merchant, son a gentleman, grandson a beggar."
(d) "Gold and silver to be had, for a price."

9. What analogy does Paul Baran use to explain the division of labor with the arrival of capitalism?
(a) The horseman and the horse.
(b) The actor and the audience.
(c) The priest and his congregation.
(d) The mother and the son.

10. In which country did Emilian Zapata introduce radical agrarian reform?
(a) Western Peru.
(b) Central Honduras.
(c) Southen Mexico.
(d) Northern Brazil.

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

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

13. What Spanish city was reconquered in 1492 under the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella?
(a) Madrid.
(b) Salamanca.
(c) Barcelona.
(d) Granada.

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

15. Why was Juan Jose Arevalo's government overthrown by Rodolfo Armas, backed by the USA?
(a) Arevalo was planning an invasion of the USA.
(b) Rodolfo Armas was the rightful President.
(c) Arevalo was rumored to be Communist.
(d) Rodolfo Armas had plans for agrarian reform.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of the native population of Latin American died of diseases contracted from the invaders?

2. Who was Augusto Cesar Sandino?

3. For whom did Montezuma mistake the invading Europeans?

4. Because of a deal with the USA, in how many years may Brazil run out of manganese for its own steel industry?

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

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