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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 percentage of their wages did Haitians lose between 1971 and 1975?

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

3. What kind of development is currently characteristic in Latin America?

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

5. Mexican cattle consume more _________ than the campesinos who tend to them?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are "negative lists"?

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

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

5. What is Brazil's relationship to Paraguay?

6. According to the author, how do Latin American countries still identify themselves?

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

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

9. How have foreign loans kept Latin America indebted to foreigners?

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

What is protectionism? Has Latin American employed protectionism as a policy? Why or why not? What country or countries, according to the author, are the shining example of protectionism? How does protectionism work (or not work) as an economic policy?

Essay Topic 2

Why has the USA historically benefited by "not being important," while Latin America's fate has been seal by its importance? What kinds of resources are found in Latin America that are not found in the USA? In the beginning, how was the colonization of the USA different from the colonization of Latin America? Name radical differences in the economic policies of the USA and Latin America.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the beginnings of the conquest of Latin America. What factors led the Spanish to finance Columbus's trip? What were the results of that voyage? What were the missions of Cortez and Pizarro? How did the natives react to the invasion? What were the factors in the defeat of the great civilizations of Latin America?

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