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

2. What, according to Galeano, is Latin America's real export?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Tn.
(d) Cheap labor.

3. Which US President announced a policy of human rights for Latin America?
(a) President William Taft.
(b) President Henry Ford.
(c) President Jimmy Carter.
(d) President George Washington.

4. What was Order 289 of 1965 in Brazil?
(a) It was an order to strike on Panama, in protest of the canal.
(b) It was an order demanding the ban of the text.
(c) It was an order which allowed foreign concerns to get loans at 7 or 8% interest.
(d) It was an order demanding foreigners pay up to 50% in interest.

5. In 1962, how did the US secure the Haitian delegate's vote at the OAS conference?
(a) By taking him out to dinner.
(b) By promising Haiti an airport.
(c) By boycotting Haitian products.
(d) By asking nicely.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Galeano hope will ultimately be the result of all Latin America's destruction?

2. Which two Latin American countries have the highest infant mortality rates?

3. In Brazil, what was Law 56,571, pass on July 6, 1965?

4. What is dynamic industry?

5. How many votes, compared to the USA, do Latin American countries have in IMF?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Without what, according to the author, would the USA not have been able to become independent?

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

5. Why was the nitrate industry in Latin America abruptly halted?

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

7. How did Bolivia achieve general amnesty?

8. How does the international market separate buyers?

9. Why do Latin American governments do nothing about all their funds flowing into foreign banks?

10. Why is Latin America unable to expand its trade horizon?

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