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

2. What illegal practice drains Brazil of more than $100 million a year?
(a) Polygamy.
(b) Filibusters.
(c) Forgery.
(d) Smuggling.

3. What states, originally belonging to Mexico, did the USA claim?
(a) Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut.
(b) Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky.
(c) Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida.
(d) Texas, California, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada.

4. What do miners chew to counteract some effects of working in the tin mines?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Wrigley's gum.
(c) Coca leaves.
(d) Leather straps.

5. What did Andre Gunder Frank discover upon analyzing the history of Latin America's "metropolis-satellite" relationships?
(a) He discovered that the poorest modern-day regions once experienced huge periods of economic boom.
(b) He discovered that the most wealthy modern-day regions are Spanish.
(c) He discovered that the most wealthy modern-day regions have remained wealthy for hundreds of years.
(d) He discovered that the poorest modern-day regions have remained poor for hundreds of years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What resource is exploited in modern-day Potosi?

2. What area's maps were given to private concerns with the aid of a US government geological survey?

3. From the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century, what peoples were the center of the slave trade?

4. Why was Juan Jose Arevalo's government overthrown by Rodolfo Armas, backed by the USA?

5. What was President Jose Manuel Balmaceda's goal for Chile?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was discovered in the Minas Gerais region?

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

4. Why, according to the author, has the USA avoided many of the problems Latin America has faced?

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

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

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

8. Compare modern-day Potosi to the silver-rush Potosi.

9. Who were the miners of Minas Gerais, and where did they come from?

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

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