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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 Brazilian mineral deposit is essential to the steel industry?
(a) Manganese.
(b) Silver.
(c) Oil.
(d) Guano.

2. Who does the author think behaves as a world policeman?
(a) The USA.
(b) Spain.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Britain.

3. How, in the 1800s, did Britain pay for most of its Latin American goods?
(a) It paid with gold.
(b) It paid with textiles.
(c) It paid with carbonate.
(d) It paid with silver.

4. How much of US investment in Latin America is in Mexico?
(a) One-eigth.
(b) Half.
(c) One-fourth.
(d) One-third.

5. In Brazil, what was Law 56,571, pass on July 6, 1965?
(a) This law reserved the petrochemical industry for the state.
(b) This law annulled law 56,570.
(c) This law put a tax on land.
(d) This law gave all citizens social security.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what is guano used?

2. What is the Haber process?

3. What important mine did Bolivia lose in the war?

4. What replaced nitrates as the pillar of Chile's economy?

5. How did John Thomas North "support" the War of the Pacific?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is most of the USA's investment in Latin America concentrated?

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

3. Why, according to Galeano, has he written this book?

4. What are "negative lists"?

5. What is Latin America's chief export?

6. How did Bolivia achieve general amnesty?

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

8. Who was General Velasco Alvarado and what did he do?

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

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

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