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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 are the origins of the Indian women's style of dress?

2. Who was Augusto Cesar Sandino?

3. What resources caused the boom of the Minas Gerais region?

4. What was the great Aztec capital city?

5. How much has Caracas grown in thirty years?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What illegal activity costs Brazil upwards of $100 million a year?

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

4. Why was a US government geological survey conducted of the Brazilian Amazon?

5. What is responsible for the collapse of Brazil's rubber industry?

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

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

8. What is "expropriation"?

9. Why can many Latin American countries not sustain the developments of manufacture?

10. What were some of the major accomplishments, etc, that Latin American sugar and slave trade contributed to directly?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is free trade? How was Latin America opened to free trade? How has free trade in Latin America been exploited? Provide three example from the text of free trade gone wrong in Latin America.

Essay Topic 2

Who is Jose Artigas? What is agrarian reform? What policies did he attempt to put into place? What world forces did he oppose? What was the agrarian reform of 1815? What ultimately happened to Artigas? How is Artigas view in Latin America today?

Essay Topic 3

According to "Seven Years Later," has Latin America made any progress since the novel was originally published? Why or why not? Have any areas gained ground at all? Have any areas lost ground? How, internationally, can the world market attribute to Latin America's advancement?

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