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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 does Latin America make up for what it loses in price?

2. In 1962, how did the US secure the Haitian delegate's vote at the OAS conference?

3. What book is Maria Carolina de Jesus famous for writing?

4. In Brazil, what was Law 56,571, pass on July 6, 1965?

5. How many votes does the USA have in the World Bank?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Brazil's relationship to Paraguay?

4. How did Bolivia achieve general amnesty?

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

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

7. Why is Latin America unable to expand its trade horizon?

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

9. Why did the USA begin to take over interests in Latin America?

10. Why was the nitrate industry in Latin America abruptly halted?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"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.

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

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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