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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does IMF stand for?
(a) International Monetary Fund.
(b) Intercontinental Movement Focus.
(c) Istabul's Major Front.
(d) Interposing Malaga's Forests.

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

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

6. When was the last time the price of milk was controlled in Chile?
(a) 1792.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1654.

7. What company owns Brazilian iron?
(a) IMF.
(b) Bethlehem Steel.
(c) The Hanna Mining Corporation.
(d) Minas Gerais.

8. 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.

9. How long, on average, do Haitians live?
(a) 30 years.
(b) 22 years.
(c) 50 years.
(d) 73 years.

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

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

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

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

14. What is silicosis?
(a) A disease of the lungs caused by working in tin mines.
(b) A process by which nitrates are pulled out of the air.
(c) An economic policy that promotes nationalization.
(d) A phrase the gauchos use when discussing cattle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "trade gap"?

2. Which countries were involved in the War of the Pacific, 1879?

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

4. Where is the copper in Chile located?

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

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