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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What mineral, almost absent in the USA, is necessary to make aluminum?
(a) Iron.
(b) Neon.
(c) Bauxite.
(d) Hydrogen.

2. What did John Thomas North and his partner Robert Harvey purchase for the war effort?
(a) Bonds.
(b) Guns.
(c) Silver.
(d) Bread.

3. What rationalization was used by the conquerors who enslaved the native populations?
(a) They claimed the Indians enjoyed the work.
(b) They would share the wealth with the Indians eventually.
(c) They denied that Indians had souls, and therefore were no better than beasts of burden.
(d) They declared the Indians owed them labor because of their defeat in the war.

4. What labor force did the author eyewitness?
(a) The silver mines of Potosi.
(b) The rubber plantations of Brazil.
(c) The tin mines of Bolivia.
(d) The oil refineries of Uruguay.

5. What nickname does the author give the USA?
(a) The world policeman.
(b) The end of iron.
(c) The vast unknowable.
(d) The great consumer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is silicosis?

2. What did Haitians do to avoid forced labor in the mines?

3. What year was Artigas's agrarian reform--"free land, free man," instituted?

4. Who was the English monarch at the time of this incident?

5. Why does the author feel that the USA was not plundered like Latin America?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Jose Artigas and what did he accomplish?

2. Why was Juan Jose Arevalo, who as President of Guatemala instituted new and better educational and labor standards, overthrown?

3. What caused the War of the Pacific, 1879-1893?

4. Describe some of the technological accomplishments of the original inhabitants of Latin American--the Mayans, Incas, and Aztecs.

5. Why can many Latin American countries not sustain the developments of manufacture?

6. How did the USA attempt to discourage the world market from purchasing oil from Brazil?

7. What is the significance of the rainbow in Haiti?

8. How did the USA attempt to derail the Brazilian oil market?

9. Why, according to the author, has the USA avoided many of the problems Latin America has faced?

10. What is responsible for the collapse of Brazil's rubber industry?

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