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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. From where does Galeano think that modern-day slavers operate?

2. Instead of hospitals and schools, what did the oil boom of Ecuador bring to the country?

3. What is the top petroleum exporter in Latin America?

4. What is "tied aid"?

5. How many votes, compared to the USA, do Latin American countries have in IMF?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is protectionism?

2. How does Latin America compensate for the low prices of its exports?

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

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

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

6. Why, once prosperous, is Paraguay today an extremely poor and backward country?

7. What are "negative lists"?

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

9. Who was General Velasco Alvarado and what did he do?

10. What is the official political image of de Rosas?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

South America took the brunt of foreign interest ever since Columbus landed, but how was Central America drawn into the fray? What Central American exports continue to be of value to the international market? How was the land in Central America seized? Who is William Walker and what was his role in Central America? What was the situation in Nicaragua, and who was Jorge Ubico?

Essay Topic 3

"The internal market, limited by the poverty of the masses, cannot sustain the development of manufacturers beyond certain limits" (p. 169). How is this quote applicable again and again in Latin American history? Find three situations where this quote proves true, and unpack the reasons why.

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