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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. Who is General Hugo Banzer?

2. What does Alcoa stand for?

3. Where is the copper in Chile located?

4. In Argentina, what often happens to the politically outspoken?

5. How much of Latin America was predicted to be in foreign creditors' hands by 1980?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it ironic that Haiti is the world's chief producer of baseballs?

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

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

4. What is Latin America's chief export?

5. Describe the three "heartening" examples Galeano provides about the people's reception of his book.

6. What country holds most of Latin America's loans, and what percentage does this country hold?

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

8. Why does Galeano believe torture exists in Latin American dictatorships?

9. Why do Latin American governments do nothing about all their funds flowing into foreign banks?

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

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

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 3

What was the War of the Triple Alliance? Why was the war fought, and who were the aggressors? Who or whom financed the war? What were the international implications of the war? What did the war do to Paraguay?

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