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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 percentage of Latin American loans are provided by the USA?

2. For what industry is the USA most dependent on foreign imports?

3. What is dynamic industry?

4. How much has Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, grown in the last 30 years?

5. How did John Thomas North "support" the War of the Pacific?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the USA get the Haitian ambassador to change his vote at an OAS conference?

2. How were the railroad tracks of Latin America laid?

3. How does the international market separate buyers?

4. Where is most of the USA's investment in Latin America concentrated?

5. What are "negative lists"?

6. Why hasn't the industrialization of Latin American benefitted the countries?

7. Has the nationalization of oil been beneficial for Venezuela?

8. Why did the Argentine financial center move to Buenos Aires?

9. How, in Argentina, are political and economic revolutionaries dealt with?

10. How have foreign loans kept Latin America indebted to foreigners?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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