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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is General Hugo Banzer?
(a) The dictator of Mexico in 1977.
(b) The dictator of Peru in 1977.
(c) The dictator of Bolivia in 1977.
(d) The dictator of Haiti in 1977.

2. What area of Latin America was specifically photographed by a US geological survey?
(a) The Andes.
(b) Amazonia.
(c) Paraguay.
(d) Bolivia.

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

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

5. Where is the copper in Chile located?
(a) At the very tops of the mountains.
(b) Along the Andean slopes.
(c) Under the seabed.
(d) In the forest floors.

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

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

8. How many votes does the USA have in the World Bank?
(a) One-sixteenth.
(b) One-half.
(c) One-one hundredth.
(d) One-fourth.

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

10. Why must the USA purchase so many of its minerals abroad?
(a) The USA cannot afford to mine its own mineral deposits.
(b) The USA lacks sufficient natural mineral deposits.
(c) The USA is controlled by Britain.
(d) The USA enjoys foreign trade.

11. Mexican cattle consume more _________ than the campesinos who tend to them?
(a) Land.
(b) Grass.
(c) Protein.
(d) Air.

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

13. In Mexico, how many rural children out of every five has normal weight and height?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

14. What invention was a major factor in Britain's industrial revolution?
(a) The steam engine.
(b) The space shuttle.
(c) The airplane.
(d) The wheel.

15. Who does the author think behaves as a world policeman?
(a) The USA.
(b) Britain.
(c) Spain.
(d) Brazil.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom does the author compare Maria Carolina de Jesus?

3. How did John Thomas North "support" the War of the Pacific?

4. How much has Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, grown in the last 30 years?

5. What book is Maria Carolina de Jesus famous for writing?

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