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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lake Maracaibo?
(a) It is the great lake of Nicaragua.
(b) It is the only source of freshwater in Argentina.
(c) It is the favorite vacation spot of Brazil.
(d) It is a huge deposit of oil in Venezuela.

2. For whom did Montezuma mistake the invading Europeans?
(a) For King Ferdinand himself.
(b) For his enemies in the south.
(c) For the god Tenochtitlan.
(d) For the god Quetzalcoatl.

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

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

5. Who was Juan Vicente Gomez?
(a) The President of Brazilian.
(b) The Bolivian revolutionary.
(c) The king of Venezuelan oil.
(d) The ambassador of Ecuador to Britain.

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

7. What states, originally belonging to Mexico, did the USA claim?
(a) Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky.
(b) Texas, California, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada.
(c) Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida.
(d) Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut.

8. What was the key to success in the sugar industry?
(a) Plows.
(b) Temperate climate.
(c) Slave traffic.
(d) Imported European workers.

9. What was President Jose Manuel Balmaceda's goal for Chile?
(a) He wanted to nationalize Chile's nitrate exports.
(b) He wanted to be elected to British parliament.
(c) He wanted to compete with Brazil's rubber industry.
(d) He wanted to export more gold and silver.

10. What resources caused the boom of the Minas Gerais region?
(a) Tin and iron.
(b) Silver and crystal.
(c) Oil and water.
(d) Gold and diamonds.

11. What was the great Aztec capital city?
(a) Tenochtitlan.
(b) Quetzalcoatl.
(c) Virachoca.
(d) Montezuma.

12. What labor force did the author eyewitness?
(a) The rubber plantations of Brazil.
(b) The tin mines of Bolivia.
(c) The silver mines of Potosi.
(d) The oil refineries of Uruguay.

13. What practice have Protestant church missionaries encouraged to Amazonian peoples?
(a) Dental braces.
(b) Boiling water.
(c) Birth control.
(d) Eye exams.

14. What was guano used for in Europe?
(a) Clothing blends.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Fertilizer.
(d) Currency.

15. Where did Columbus think he had landed, even during his third voyage?
(a) He thought he was off the coast of Africa.
(b) He thought he was off the coast of Hawaii.
(c) He thought he was off the coast of Asia.
(d) He thought he was off the coast of Venezuela.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Andre Gunder Frank discover upon analyzing the history of Latin America's "metropolis-satellite" relationships?

2. What famous saying was associated with Guanajuato?

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

4. Though the Indians of Latin American had a population of 70 million before foreign invasion, how many remained after 150 years?

5. What do coffee and petroleum have in common?

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