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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 is the world's chief fuel?
(a) Petroleum.
(b) Iron.
(c) Water.
(d) Copper.

2. What did Columbus witness on his first voyage, while passing Tenerife?
(a) He witness an eclipse.
(b) He witnessed a falling meteorite.
(c) He witnessed an avalanche.
(d) He witnessed a volcanic eruption.

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

4. How much of the native population of Latin American died of diseases contracted from the invaders?
(a) One-sixteenth of the population died.
(b) Only ten people died.
(c) One-third of the population died.
(d) Over half of the population died.

5. What is Lake Maracaibo?
(a) It is the great lake of Nicaragua.
(b) It is the only source of freshwater in Argentina.
(c) It is the favorite vacation spot of Brazil.
(d) It is a huge deposit of oil in Venezuela.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Brazil abolish slavery?

2. Especially in Guatemala, what is the structure of the labor force visibly identified with?

3. What famous saying was associated with Guanajuato?

4. What rationalization was used by the conquerors who enslaved the native populations?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was discovered in the Minas Gerais region?

4. What were some of the factors in the conquistadors' victory over the native peoples of America?

5. What is silicosis?

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

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

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

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

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

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