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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. Which country has the best chance of establishing a Common Market of Latin America?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Uruguay.
(c) Ecuador.
(d) Haiti.

2. To whom does the author compare Maria Carolina de Jesus?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Cinderella.
(c) Castro.
(d) Hawthorne.

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

4. What was the first Latin American country to install an oil refinery?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Venezuela.
(c) Paraguay.
(d) Uruguay.

5. What does Galeano say are his most favorable review of the books?
(a) The dictatorships who have banned the book.
(b) The New York Time review.
(c) The London Gazette.
(d) The Uruguayan Post.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Instead of hospitals and schools, what did the oil boom of Ecuador bring to the country?

3. What percentage of Latin American loans are provided by the USA?

4. What is guano?

5. How, in the 1800s, did Britain pay for most of its Latin American goods?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are "negative lists"?

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

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

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

6. What is the official political image of de Rosas?

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

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

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

10. Describe the three "heartening" examples Galeano provides about the people's reception of his book.

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