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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 item(s), smuggled out of Brazil, costs the country about $100 million a year?
(a) Diamonds.
(b) Water.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Gold.

2. What is the top petroleum exporter in Latin America?
(a) Panama.
(b) Venezuela.
(c) Haiti.
(d) Mexico.

3. What metaphor does the author use for Latin American "aid"?
(a) A cart with no wheels.
(b) A lamp with no bulb.
(c) A pig with a wooden leg.
(d) A bird with a broken wing.

4. What is a tojo?
(a) A particular type of cattle.
(b) A Paraguayan peasant.
(c) A loose rock overhead in a mine.
(d) A kind of shipping arrangement between importers and exporters.

5. What percentage of Latin American loans are provided by the USA?
(a) 50%.
(b) 100%.
(c) None.
(d) 30%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first Latin American country to install an oil refinery?

2. How many votes does the USA have in the World Bank?

3. What area of Latin America was specifically photographed by a US geological survey?

4. For what is guano used?

5. From where does Galeano think that modern-day slavers operate?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Bolivia achieve general amnesty?

2. Why does Galeano believe torture exists in Latin American dictatorships?

3. How have foreign loans kept Latin America indebted to foreigners?

4. What is Brazil's relationship to Paraguay?

5. Why, once prosperous, is Paraguay today an extremely poor and backward country?

6. According to the author, how do Latin American countries still identify themselves?

7. Has the nationalization of oil been beneficial for Venezuela?

8. What country holds most of Latin America's loans, and what percentage does this country hold?

9. Why did the USA begin to take over interests in Latin America?

10. What is protectionism?

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