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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the origins of the Indian women's style of dress?
(a) The styles were passed down through generations of native women.
(b) The styles were imposed in modern times by a fascist government.
(c) The styles were copied from peasant woman in Spain and imposed by Charles III.
(d) The styles were popularized by the Spanish nobility and worn by the natives as cast-offs.

2. What resources caused the boom of the Minas Gerais region?
(a) Tin and iron.
(b) Silver and crystal.
(c) Oil and water.
(d) Gold and diamonds.

3. Especially in Guatemala, what is the structure of the labor force visibly identified with?
(a) Racism.
(b) Minifundios.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Poverty.

4. What resource was at the center of the city of Potosi's prosperity?
(a) Salt.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Silver.
(d) Gold.

5. What year did Brazil abolish slavery?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1701.
(d) 1901.

6. What labor force did the author eyewitness?
(a) The oil refineries of Uruguay.
(b) The rubber plantations of Brazil.
(c) The silver mines of Potosi.
(d) The tin mines of Bolivia.

7. In Haiti, what does the rainbow symbolize?
(a) The rainbow symbolizes the largest sugar harvest on record anywhere in the world.
(b) The rainbow symbolizes slaves who escaped to the west side of the island and reconstructed their African way of life.
(c) The rainbow symbolizes the victory in the Haitian Civil War.
(d) The rainbow symbolizes the European ships that came to take the Africans to Haiti so long ago.

8. What law did Juan Domingo Peron impose in Argentina in compliance with minimum wage?
(a) The Latafundios Abolition Act.
(b) The Statute of the Peon.
(c) The Agrarian Revolution.
(d) The Agricultural Division Act.

9. What area's maps were given to private concerns with the aid of a US government geological survey?
(a) Uruguay.
(b) Bolivia.
(c) The Andes.
(d) Amazonia.

10. What year did Columbus "discover" America?
(a) 1329.
(b) 1542.
(c) 1492.
(d) 1969.

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

12. What do miners chew to counteract some effects of working in the tin mines?
(a) Coca leaves.
(b) Leather straps.
(c) Wrigley's gum.
(d) Tobacco.

13. What analogy does Paul Baran use to explain the division of labor with the arrival of capitalism?
(a) The actor and the audience.
(b) The horseman and the horse.
(c) The mother and the son.
(d) The priest and his congregation.

14. How were the rubber workers in Brazil paid?
(a) They were paid in kind, with dried meat, manioc flour, and unrefined sugar.
(b) They were paid with fine cloths and ribbons.
(c) They were paid with gold coins on an hourly rate.
(d) There were paid with visits to their families abroad.

15. Concerning petroleum, where is the most money to be made?
(a) The most money is made for the consuming country.
(b) The most money is made for the producing country.
(c) The most money is made for the laborer.
(d) The most money is made for the middleman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lake Maracaibo?

2. For whom did Montezuma mistake the invading Europeans?

3. What nickname does the author give the USA?

4. How did the USA attempt to curtail Brazil's petroleum trade?

5. Though the Indians of Latin American had a population of 70 million before foreign invasion, how many remained after 150 years?

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