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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 item(s), smuggled out of Brazil, costs the country about $100 million a year?

2. How long, on average, do Haitians live?

3. How much of US investment in Latin America is in Mexico?

4. How much of Mexico did the USA conquer with Texas?

5. What is guano?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Without what, according to the author, would the USA not have been able to become independent?

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

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

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

6. What is protectionism?

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

8. How does the international market separate buyers?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Slavery, today a moral abomination, has historically been a means to an end. What part did slavery play in the colonization of Latin America? How were slaves used for the import/export business of Latin America, run by Europeans? To what major historical events did slavery contribute? Is there slavery in Latin America today?

Essay Topic 2

"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 3

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.

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