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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How much has Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, grown in the last 30 years?
(a) 1,000%.
(b) 500%.
(c) 700%.
(d) 50%.

5. What was the significance of the land the USA purchased from Brazil?
(a) It makes Brazil part of the USA.
(b) It cuts the Amazon off from the rest of the country.
(c) It is the location of a new US state.
(d) It is in the shape of Texas.

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

7. In 1968, what product did Uruguay agree to limit so the country could receive goods under the US agricultural surplus law?
(a) Silver.
(b) Ponchos.
(c) Scotch.
(d) Rice.

8. What kind of development is currently characteristic in Latin America?
(a) Reflected development.
(b) Literary development.
(c) Artistic development.
(d) Mandatory development.

9. In 1975, how many times greater was Latin America's external debt than in 1968?
(a) Three times greater.
(b) Ten times greater.
(c) Two times greater.
(d) Twenty times greater.

10. What country has recently admitted to fault in many military situations in Latin America?
(a) Sweden.
(b) Australia.
(c) The USA.
(d) France.

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

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

13. In the January 1978 referendum, where did one place a cross if one voted "no" for Pinochet?
(a) On a picture of his face.
(b) Under a black rectangle.
(c) In the regular "no" voting box.
(d) Above a red hand.

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

15. In what year did General Velasco Alvarado, social and economic reformist, die?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1654.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1968.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Uruguay, how many workers died in the railway gelignite explosion of 1977?

3. For what is guano used?

4. What is "tied aid"?

5. What was the first Latin American country to install an oil refinery?

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