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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 resource is exploited in modern-day Potosi?
(a) Tin.
(b) Silver.
(c) Diamonds.
(d) Gold.
2. After the war between Bolivia and Paraguay, who eventually claimed the land Paraguay won in the conflict?
(a) Argentina.
(b) Bolivia.
(c) The USA.
(d) Brazil.
3. What was Colombia paid for the erection of the Panama Canal?
(a) 50 million dollars.
(b) 5 million dollars.
(c) 25 million dollars.
(d) 10 million dollars.
4. What law did Juan Domingo Peron impose in Argentina in compliance with minimum wage?
(a) The Statute of the Peon.
(b) The Agricultural Division Act.
(c) The Agrarian Revolution.
(d) The Latafundios Abolition Act.
5. What Spanish conquistador defeated the great Tenochtitlan?
(a) Marco Polo.
(b) Cortes.
(c) Columbus.
(d) Pizarro.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the world's chief fuel?
2. Who was Aleijadinho?
3. How much has Caracas grown in thirty years?
4. What region is the world's top coffee producer?
5. What resources caused the boom of the Minas Gerais region?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who were the miners of Minas Gerais, and where did they come from?
2. What drove Spain to finance Columbus' expedition?
3. How did the USA attempt to discourage the world market from purchasing oil from Brazil?
4. What illegal activity costs Brazil upwards of $100 million a year?
5. What caused the War of the Pacific, 1879-1893?
6. Though coffee and petroleum are invaluable on a world market, why does Latin America still not profit from having these resources in abundance?
7. Why can many Latin American countries not sustain the developments of manufacture?
8. What is "expropriation"?
9. Why was Juan Jose Arevalo, who as President of Guatemala instituted new and better educational and labor standards, overthrown?
10. What is responsible for the collapse of Brazil's rubber industry?
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