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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. Because of a deal with the USA, in how many years may Brazil run out of manganese for its own steel industry?
(a) 100.
(b) 5.
(c) 25.
(d) 15.

2. What resource replaced nitrate as Chile's main export?
(a) Copper.
(b) Gold.
(c) Steel.
(d) Wool.

3. What area's maps were given to private concerns with the aid of a US government geological survey?
(a) Bolivia.
(b) The Andes.
(c) Uruguay.
(d) Amazonia.

4. What did the export of guano help stave off in Europe?
(a) Annoyance.
(b) Disease.
(c) War.
(d) Hunger.

5. How did American interests in Venezuelan crude oil attempt to derail the Brazilian crude oil economy?
(a) They created a conflict with the Brazilian government.
(b) They rated Brazilian crude oil a "C".
(c) They tried to blackmail the USSR into only using Venezuelan oil.
(d) They attempted a blockade of the Brazilian coastline.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Latin American countries were involved in the War of the Pacific?

2. What was Colombia paid for the erection of the Panama Canal?

3. In which country did Emilian Zapata introduce radical agrarian reform?

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

5. What did Columbus witness on his first voyage, while passing Tenerife?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is silicosis?

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

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

9. Who was John Thomas North and what did he do?

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

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