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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 did Asia acquire rubber tree seeds?

2. What famous saying was associated with Guanajuato?

3. If slaves arrived in the colony and were too ill to work, what happened to them?

4. Who was the English monarch at the time of this incident?

5. How did American interests in Venezuelan crude oil attempt to derail the Brazilian crude oil economy?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is "expropriation"?

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

4. What drove Spain to finance Columbus' expedition?

5. What was discovered in the Minas Gerais region?

6. What is a "pongo"?

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

8. Today, what resource is mined in Minas Gerais, and by whom?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author has a powerful point of view throughout the text. Choose three specific instances that you feel the author is making his voice clear. What are his opinions throughout the work? How are is points effective for the reader?

Essay Topic 2

What happened in the city of Potosi? What was Potosi's main export? Could Potosi be an example of a "metropolis-satellite" relationship? Why or why not? Who or whom mined the silver in Potosi? How were the veins of Potosi stripped? What is Potosi like today?

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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