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

2. What metaphor does the author use for Latin American "aid"?

3. For what sporting good is Haiti the chief producer?

4. Why must the USA purchase so many of its minerals abroad?

5. Which two Latin American countries have the highest infant mortality rates?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Bolivia achieve general amnesty?

2. Why, according to Galeano, has he written this book?

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

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

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

6. What are "negative lists"?

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

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

9. After Latin America was liberated from Spain, what country inherited its reins?

10. What is Latin America's chief export?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Who was Tupac Amaru? What were his ties to ancient Latin America? What causes did he champion? How did he meet his end?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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