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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. How much has Caracas grown in thirty years?

2. What do coffee and petroleum have in common?

3. Where did Columbus think he had landed, even during his third voyage?

4. What is the most universal health problem in Latin America?

5. What Aztec innovation in Mexico City is still visited by tourists today?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare modern-day Potosi to the silver-rush Potosi.

2. What is the significance of the rainbow in Haiti?

3. What is a "pongo"?

4. Why was Juan Jose Arevalo, who as President of Guatemala instituted new and better educational and labor standards, overthrown?

5. Why, according to the author, has the USA avoided many of the problems Latin America has faced?

6. What were some of the factors in the conquistadors' victory over the native peoples of America?

7. Who was John Thomas North and what did he do?

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

9. What is silicosis?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one section of the novel to research in depth. Create a 5+ page research paper detailing all the events of the section. Be sure to explain why the section has been included in the novel and how it pertains to the work as a whole

Essay Topic 2

"The internal market, limited by the poverty of the masses, cannot sustain the development of manufacturers beyond certain limits" (p. 169). How is this quote applicable again and again in Latin American history? Find three situations where this quote proves true, and unpack the reasons why.

Essay Topic 3

Think about the phrase "History repeats itself." Do you think history really repeat itself? Why or why not? Use examples from the text to support your argument. Include specific cases in Latin American history.

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