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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which country has the best chance of establishing a Common Market of Latin America?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Uruguay.
(c) Ecuador.
(d) Haiti.

2. To whom does the author compare Maria Carolina de Jesus?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Cinderella.
(c) Castro.
(d) Hawthorne.

3. What is the top petroleum exporter in Latin America?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Haiti.
(c) Venezuela.
(d) Panama.

4. What was the first Latin American country to install an oil refinery?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Venezuela.
(c) Paraguay.
(d) Uruguay.

5. What does Galeano say are his most favorable review of the books?
(a) The dictatorships who have banned the book.
(b) The New York Time review.
(c) The London Gazette.
(d) The Uruguayan Post.

6. How many votes, compared to the USA, do Latin American countries have in IMF?
(a) More than two-thirds.
(b) Less than half.
(c) 13.
(d) More than half.

7. Instead of hospitals and schools, what did the oil boom of Ecuador bring to the country?
(a) Audis.
(b) Color televisions.
(c) Air conditioning.
(d) Highly bred dogs.

8. What percentage of Latin American loans are provided by the USA?
(a) 50%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 100%.
(d) None.

9. What is guano?
(a) A traditional delicacy.
(b) Brazilian currency.
(c) A specific type of poncho.
(d) Bird excrement.

10. How, in the 1800s, did Britain pay for most of its Latin American goods?
(a) It paid with silver.
(b) It paid with gold.
(c) It paid with carbonate.
(d) It paid with textiles.

11. In Brazil, what was Law 56,570, passed on July 6, 1965?
(a) This law made divorce unlawful.
(b) This law made gauchos legal servants of the state.
(c) This law freed Brazil from all foreign debt.
(d) This law reserved the petrochemical industry for the state.

12. What street took the place of Lombard Street in Latin America?
(a) Ponce de Leon Street.
(b) Easy Street.
(c) Wall Street.
(d) Maple Street.

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

14. What percentage of their wages did Haitians lose between 1971 and 1975?
(a) 50%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 1.5%.
(d) 25%.

15. In the 1800s, what country was the chief importer into Latin America?
(a) Spain.
(b) The USA.
(c) Portugal.
(d) Britain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What metaphor does the author use to describe industry in Latin America?

2. Who does the author think behaves as a world policeman?

3. In 1962, how did the US secure the Haitian delegate's vote at the OAS conference?

4. In what year did General Velasco Alvarado, social and economic reformist, die?

5. How long, on average, do Haitians live?

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