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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 year did Columbus "discover" America?
(a) 1329.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1492.
(d) 1542.
2. What caused the Chilean nitrate business to collapse?
(a) The war with Britain.
(b) The exhaustion of guano.
(c) The perfection of the Haber process.
(d) The flood of 1923.
3. What year was Artigas's agrarian reform--"free land, free man," instituted?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1815.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1800.
4. Especially in Guatemala, what is the structure of the labor force visibly identified with?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Minifundios.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Racism.
5. Why does the author feel that the USA was not plundered like Latin America?
(a) The USA had the firepower and manpower to fight back.
(b) The USA was settled a long time after Latin America was settled.
(c) The USA struck a deal with its potential conquerors.
(d) The USA initially did not have natural resources attractive to the international market.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are the origins of the Indian women's style of dress?
2. What Latin American countries were involved in the War of the Pacific?
3. How did American interests in Venezuelan crude oil attempt to derail the Brazilian crude oil economy?
4. What famous saying was associated with Guanajuato?
5. Who was Augusto Cesar Sandino?
Short Essay Questions
1. What caused the collapse of the Chilean nitrate trade?
2. What caused the War of the Pacific, 1879-1893?
3. Why must the USA import so many raw materials from abroad?
4. Why was Juan Jose Arevalo, who as President of Guatemala instituted new and better educational and labor standards, overthrown?
5. What is silicosis?
6. What is responsible for the collapse of Brazil's rubber industry?
7. Though coffee and petroleum are invaluable on a world market, why does Latin America still not profit from having these resources in abundance?
8. What is "expropriation"?
9. What illegal activity costs Brazil upwards of $100 million a year?
10. Why can many Latin American countries not sustain the developments of manufacture?
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