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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. How much of Mexico did the USA conquer with Texas?
(a) Half.
(b) None.
(c) All.
(d) One-third.

5. What is "tied aid"?
(a) It is a method of dyeing colorful patterns on clothing.
(b) It is a British policy whereupon the USA is blockaded.
(c) It gives Latin America tax breaks.
(d) It bestows a general subsidy on US exports.

6. How much of US investment in Latin America is in Mexico?
(a) One-third.
(b) One-eigth.
(c) Half.
(d) One-fourth.

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

8. In 1962, how did the US secure the Haitian delegate's vote at the OAS conference?
(a) By boycotting Haitian products.
(b) By asking nicely.
(c) By taking him out to dinner.
(d) By promising Haiti an airport.

9. What is the chief fuel of the modern world?
(a) Petroleum.
(b) Nuclear power.
(c) Hydroelectric dams.
(d) Solar energy.

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

11. Whom does Galeano claim has written the official histories?
(a) The peasants.
(b) The conquerors.
(c) Harvard graduates.
(d) No one.

12. What does the author name as a chief concern within Latin American countries?
(a) Pride.
(b) Communication.
(c) Language.
(d) Color-coordination.

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

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

15. What does the Volkswagen affiliate in Sweden do for every car it sells?
(a) It takes a vacation.
(b) It throws a party.
(c) It pays someone in Brazil.
(d) It plants a tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Galeano claim to have written this book?

2. Who was the person to coin the phrase "knowledge is power"?

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

4. What is a tojo?

5. Mexican cattle consume more _________ than the campesinos who tend to them?

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