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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 law did Juan Domingo Peron impose in Argentina in compliance with minimum wage?
(a) The Latafundios Abolition Act.
(b) The Agricultural Division Act.
(c) The Statute of the Peon.
(d) The Agrarian Revolution.

2. What did Haitians do to avoid forced labor in the mines?
(a) They poisoned the Spanish in great numbers.
(b) They committed mass suicide.
(c) They rebelled and drove the Spaniards away.
(d) They ran away and resettled.

3. To what does the author compare Latin America's capacity for surprise?
(a) Pandora's box.
(b) A jack-in-the-box.
(c) Guerilla warfare.
(d) Fool's gold.

4. If slaves arrived in the colony and were too ill to work, what happened to them?
(a) They were taken to the plantation anyway.
(b) They were left on the ship's deck to die.
(c) They were sent back to Africa to recover.
(d) They were put in a hospital to recover.

5. What was the Chaco War of 1932-1935?
(a) An Indian-rights war between Chile and Peru.
(b) A silver-sparked war between Argentina and Ecuador.
(c) A petroleum-sparked war between Bolivia and Paraguay.
(d) A manganese war between Brazil and Argentina.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Juan Vicente Gomez?

2. What great mathematical principle did the Mayans discover before any other people in history?

3. What resource was at the center of the city of Potosi's prosperity?

4. Without its acquisition of Brazilian gold from Portugal, what major conflict would England surely have lost?

5. Who was William Walker?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is silicosis?

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

3. Why was guano, or nitrate, so valuable to Europeans?

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

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

6. Why must the USA import so many raw materials from abroad?

7. How has the coffee industry hurt the people of Latin America?

8. Why was a US government geological survey conducted of the Brazilian Amazon?

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

10. What was discovered in the Minas Gerais region?

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