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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many votes does the USA have in the World Bank?
(a) One-sixteenth.
(b) One-fourth.
(c) One-half.
(d) One-one hundredth.

2. What is "tied aid"?
(a) It bestows a general subsidy on US exports.
(b) It is a British policy whereupon the USA is blockaded.
(c) It gives Latin America tax breaks.
(d) It is a method of dyeing colorful patterns on clothing.

3. What replaced nitrates as the pillar of Chile's economy?
(a) Hides.
(b) Copper.
(c) Mercury.
(d) Textiles.

4. What does the Volkswagen affiliate in Sweden do for every car it sells?
(a) It pays someone in Brazil.
(b) It takes a vacation.
(c) It plants a tree.
(d) It throws a party.

5. What is the Haber process?
(a) A process that produces nitrate by fixing nitrogen from the air.
(b) A process that economically could fix Brazil.
(c) A process by which Bolivia vowed to uphold.
(d) A process by which iron is purified.

6. How does Latin America make up for what it loses in price?
(a) Dictatorships.
(b) Export.
(c) Land wars.
(d) Quantity.

7. What kind of development is currently characteristic in Latin America?
(a) Mandatory development.
(b) Literary development.
(c) Reflected development.
(d) Artistic development.

8. What, according to Galeano, is Latin America's real export?
(a) Tn.
(b) Cheap labor.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Sugar.

9. What is the great natural resource of Lake Maracaibo?
(a) Tin.
(b) Silver.
(c) Oil.
(d) Bauxite.

10. What street took the place of Lombard Street in Latin America?
(a) Ponce de Leon Street.
(b) Easy Street.
(c) Maple Street.
(d) Wall Street.

11. Who was the person to coin the phrase "knowledge is power"?
(a) Sir Francis Bacon.
(b) Jose Artigas.
(c) Yogi Bera.
(d) President Lyndon Johnson.

12. According to the "Capitalist Manifesto", what natural code governs human life?
(a) The law of the jungle.
(b) The Pythagorean Theorem.
(c) The law of sides.
(d) The law of gravity.

13. Why must the USA purchase so many of its minerals abroad?
(a) The USA cannot afford to mine its own mineral deposits.
(b) The USA lacks sufficient natural mineral deposits.
(c) The USA enjoys foreign trade.
(d) The USA is controlled by Britain.

14. In the January 1978 referendum, where did one place a cross if one voted "no" for Pinochet?
(a) Under a black rectangle.
(b) Above a red hand.
(c) In the regular "no" voting box.
(d) On a picture of his face.

15. To whom does the author compare Maria Carolina de Jesus?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Cinderella.
(c) Hawthorne.
(d) Castro.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the last time the price of milk was controlled in Chile?

2. For what is guano used?

3. For what sporting good is Haiti the chief producer?

4. From where does Galeano think that modern-day slavers operate?

5. In Brazil, what was Law 56,571, pass on July 6, 1965?

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