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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. In Haiti, what does the rainbow symbolize?
(a) The rainbow symbolizes the victory in the Haitian Civil War.
(b) The rainbow symbolizes slaves who escaped to the west side of the island and reconstructed their African way of life.
(c) The rainbow symbolizes the largest sugar harvest on record anywhere in the world.
(d) The rainbow symbolizes the European ships that came to take the Africans to Haiti so long ago.

2. What region is the world's top coffee producer?
(a) Asia.
(b) Africa.
(c) Australia.
(d) Latin America.

3. What Aztec innovation in Mexico City is still visited by tourists today?
(a) The great sundial.
(b) The floating gardens.
(c) The golden mask.
(d) The pyramids of Cairo.

4. Out of the 70,000 Guatemalans that die each year, how many are children?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 45,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 10,000.

5. What year did Columbus "discover" America?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1492.
(c) 1329.
(d) 1542.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mariano Melgarejo force a British ambassador to drink as punishment for sneering at the local chichas?

2. What Hapsburg King of Spain was obsessed with religious wars, draining Spain's coffers and exploited Latin America?

3. What resource replaced nitrate as Chile's main export?

4. What country basically owns the Central American banana industry?

5. What was guano used for in Europe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Emiliano Zapata and what did he accomplish?

2. What is silicosis?

3. What caused the collapse of the Chilean nitrate trade?

4. What were some of the major accomplishments, etc, that Latin American sugar and slave trade contributed to directly?

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

6. Explain the "horseman and horse" relationship between Latin America and Europe.

7. What drove Spain to finance Columbus' expedition?

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

9. Though coffee and petroleum are invaluable on a world market, why does Latin America still not profit from having these resources in abundance?

10. Today, what resource is mined in Minas Gerais, and by whom?

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