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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Contemporary Structure of Plunder.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do coffee and petroleum have in common?
(a) They each need very particular growing conditions.
(b) They each foster higher profits for the consuming country than for the producing country.
(c) They are each rapidly falling in price and usefulness.
(d) They are each dark in color and used all over the world.

2. In which country did Emilian Zapata introduce radical agrarian reform?
(a) Central Honduras.
(b) Northern Brazil.
(c) Western Peru.
(d) Southen Mexico.

3. Why does the author feel that the USA was not plundered like Latin America?
(a) The USA had the firepower and manpower to fight back.
(b) The USA initially did not have natural resources attractive to the international market.
(c) The USA was settled a long time after Latin America was settled.
(d) The USA struck a deal with its potential conquerors.

4. What monies has the banking industry diverted from Latin America?
(a) Its hedge funds.
(b) Its savings.
(c) Its loan interest.
(d) Its checking accounts.

5. What are the environmental problems with many of Latin America's cash crops?
(a) Many of the cash crops are failing and leaving large swaths of empty land.
(b) Coffee, sugarcane, and cotton all require mass deforestation.
(c) Coffee, sugarcane, and cotton are primarily consumed by the farmers.
(d) Many of the cash crops are eaten by animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lake Maracaibo?

2. Who was Augusto Cesar Sandino?

3. What labor force did the author eyewitness?

4. How much did foreign capitalists pay per acre for a huge tract of land in the Amazon?

5. What is the world's chief fuel?

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