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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a tojo?
(a) A Paraguayan peasant.
(b) A particular type of cattle.
(c) A kind of shipping arrangement between importers and exporters.
(d) A loose rock overhead in a mine.

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

3. What is dynamic industry?
(a) The production of intermediate and capital goods.
(b) The manufacture of colored dyes.
(c) The process of making dynamite.
(d) The production of foreign goods.

4. What, according to Galeano, is Latin America's real export?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Cheap labor.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Tn.

5. Who was the person to coin the phrase "knowledge is power"?
(a) Sir Francis Bacon.
(b) President Lyndon Johnson.
(c) Yogi Bera.
(d) Jose Artigas.

6. Which countries were involved in the War of the Pacific, 1879?
(a) Bolivia, Peru, and Chile.
(b) Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.
(c) Haiti, Guatemala, and Nicaragua,
(d) Venezuela, Ecuador, and Paraguay.

7. What replaced nitrates as the pillar of Chile's economy?
(a) Textiles.
(b) Mercury.
(c) Copper.
(d) Hides.

8. To what does Galeano compare General Pinochet?
(a) To Monet's "Water Lilies."
(b) To Kissinger's "Hunger Wages".
(c) To Goya's "black art".
(d) To Picasso's "Guernica".

9. The bourgeois' attempt at creating national industry has had a short and low flight, like a __________.
(a) Bat.
(b) Hen.
(c) Elephant.
(d) Eagle.

10. Who was the nitrate King?
(a) Bruce Palmer.
(b) Fidel Castro.
(c) John Thomas North.
(d) Jose Manuel Balmaceda.

11. What monies has the banking industry diverted from Latin America?
(a) Its loan interest.
(b) Its checking accounts.
(c) Its savings.
(d) Its hedge funds.

12. How much of Latin America was predicted to be in foreign creditors' hands by 1980?
(a) 50%.
(b) 100%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 80%.

13. What does Alcoa stand for?
(a) The Argentine Life Coalition of America.
(b) The Aluminum Company of America.
(c) The Andean Living Confederates of America.
(d) The Arbitrary Concerns of America.

14. What important mine did Bolivia lose in the war?
(a) Buenos Aires, a guano mine.
(b) Quetzalcoatl, a tin mine.
(c) Chuquicamata, a copper mine.
(d) Las Ramblas, a silver mine.

15. In Brazil, what was Law 56,571, pass on July 6, 1965?
(a) This law put a tax on land.
(b) This law reserved the petrochemical industry for the state.
(c) This law annulled law 56,570.
(d) This law gave all citizens social security.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Galeano say are his most favorable review of the books?

2. From where does Galeano think that modern-day slavers operate?

3. What is the top petroleum exporter in Latin America?

4. What Brazilian mineral deposit is essential to the steel industry?

5. Which US President announced a policy of human rights for Latin America?

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