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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 does the Volkswagen affiliate in Sweden do for every car it sells?
(a) It takes a vacation.
(b) It pays someone in Brazil.
(c) It plants a tree.
(d) It throws a party.

2. How much has Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, grown in the last 30 years?
(a) 1,000%.
(b) 500%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 700%.

3. Why must the USA purchase so many of its minerals abroad?
(a) The USA enjoys foreign trade.
(b) The USA is controlled by Britain.
(c) The USA lacks sufficient natural mineral deposits.
(d) The USA cannot afford to mine its own mineral deposits.

4. What is the Haber process?
(a) A process by which Bolivia vowed to uphold.
(b) A process that economically could fix Brazil.
(c) A process that produces nitrate by fixing nitrogen from the air.
(d) A process by which iron is purified.

5. What country has recently admitted to fault in many military situations in Latin America?
(a) Australia.
(b) France.
(c) Sweden.
(d) The USA.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author name as a chief concern within Latin American countries?

2. How does Latin America make up for what it loses in price?

3. In the 1800s, what country was the chief importer into Latin America?

4. What is a tojo?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the USA get the Haitian ambassador to change his vote at an OAS conference?

3. What is Brazil's relationship to Paraguay?

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

5. How, in Argentina, are political and economic revolutionaries dealt with?

6. Why is it ironic that Haiti is the world's chief producer of baseballs?

7. How were the railroad tracks of Latin America laid?

8. What are "negative lists"?

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

10. Why hasn't the industrialization of Latin American benefitted the countries?

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