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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 replaced nitrates as the pillar of Chile's economy?
(a) Hides.
(b) Textiles.
(c) Copper.
(d) Mercury.

2. What metaphor does the author use for Latin American "aid"?
(a) A lamp with no bulb.
(b) A pig with a wooden leg.
(c) A cart with no wheels.
(d) A bird with a broken wing.

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

4. The bourgeois' attempt at creating national industry has had a short and low flight, like a __________.
(a) Bat.
(b) Hen.
(c) Eagle.
(d) Elephant.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a "trade gap"?

3. What is the top petroleum exporter in Latin America?

4. What was the significance of the land the USA purchased from Brazil?

5. In the January 1978 referendum, where did one place a cross if one voted "no" for Pinochet?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. After Latin America was liberated from Spain, what country inherited its reins?

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

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

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

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