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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 the USA attempt to curtail Brazil's petroleum trade?

2. Who usually financed the conquistadors' expeditions?

3. What resource was at the center of the city of Potosi's prosperity?

4. How much has Caracas grown in thirty years?

5. What practice have Protestant church missionaries encouraged to Amazonian peoples?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was Emiliano Zapata and what did he accomplish?

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

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. Why must the USA import so many raw materials from abroad?

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

8. Who were the miners of Minas Gerais, and where did they come from?

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

10. What is "expropriation"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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.

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