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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. For what is guano used?
(a) As decoration.
(b) As medicine.
(c) As coolant.
(d) As fertilizer.

2. What does Alcoa stand for?
(a) The Aluminum Company of America.
(b) The Arbitrary Concerns of America.
(c) The Argentine Life Coalition of America.
(d) The Andean Living Confederates of America.

3. What is dynamic industry?
(a) The production of intermediate and capital goods.
(b) The production of foreign goods.
(c) The manufacture of colored dyes.
(d) The process of making dynamite.

4. Who was the person to coin the phrase "knowledge is power"?
(a) Yogi Bera.
(b) Jose Artigas.
(c) President Lyndon Johnson.
(d) Sir Francis Bacon.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much of Mexico did the USA conquer with Texas?

3. How many votes does Latin America have in the World Bank?

4. In what year did General Velasco Alvarado, social and economic reformist, die?

5. What monies has the banking industry diverted from Latin America?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is Brazil's relationship to Paraguay?

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

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

8. How does Latin America compensate for the low prices of its exports?

9. How did Bolivia achieve general amnesty?

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

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