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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rationalization was used by the conquerors who enslaved the native populations?

2. What country basically owns the Central American banana industry?

3. Who was Juan Vicente Gomez?

4. What region is the world's top coffee producer?

5. What states, originally belonging to Mexico, did the USA claim?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the USA attempt to discourage the world market from purchasing oil from Brazil?

2. What was discovered in the Minas Gerais region?

3. What is "expropriation"?

4. Who is Jose Artigas and what did he accomplish?

5. Though coffee and petroleum are invaluable on a world market, why does Latin America still not profit from having these resources in abundance?

6. Explain the "horseman and horse" relationship between Latin America and Europe.

7. Describe some of the technological accomplishments of the original inhabitants of Latin American--the Mayans, Incas, and Aztecs.

8. What caused the War of the Pacific, 1879-1893?

9. How did the USA attempt to derail the Brazilian oil market?

10. How has the coffee industry hurt the people of Latin America?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Has Galeano's novel changed your worldview? Why or why not? What was the most surprising thing you read in the novel? Are you morally opposed to anything that you read? Why or why not? Feel free to use properly cited quotations from the text.

Essay Topic 2

How has the coffee industry helped Latin American economy? How has it hurt Latin American economy throughout the ages? Who really profits from the coffee trade? What Latin American countries are the largest exporters of coffee? Has coffee contributed to the Latin American "hunger wages"? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one Latin American revolutionary to explore. Who was this person? What country did he belong to? What major issues did he represent? What is the current public opinions of this person? What are the author's opinions of this person? What are your opinions of this person? Be sure to use properly cited quotations from the text.

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