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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 street took the place of Lombard Street in Latin America?

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

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

4. In the 1800s, what country was the chief importer into Latin America?

5. What, according to Galeano, is Latin America's real export?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Bolivia achieve general amnesty?

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

4. Describe the three "heartening" examples Galeano provides about the people's reception of his book.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is Brazil's relationship to Paraguay?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one section of the novel to research in depth. Create a 5+ page research paper detailing all the events of the section. Be sure to explain why the section has been included in the novel and how it pertains to the work as a whole

Essay Topic 3

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.

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