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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Hapsburg King of Spain was obsessed with religious wars, draining Spain's coffers and exploited Latin America?
(a) Louis XI.
(b) Charles V.
(c) Henry VIII.
(d) Ferdinand of Aragon.

2. How did Asia acquire rubber tree seeds?
(a) Chinese merchants came to Brazil and took the seeds back.
(b) The trees were discovered deep in the forest.
(c) Christopher Columbus took seeds back for Ferdinand and Isabella.
(d) Henry Wickham smuggled seeds out of Brazil.

3. What illegal practice drains Brazil of more than $100 million a year?
(a) Polygamy.
(b) Forgery.
(c) Smuggling.
(d) Filibusters.

4. Because of a deal with the USA, in how many years may Brazil run out of manganese for its own steel industry?
(a) 25.
(b) 15.
(c) 100.
(d) 5.

5. Without its acquisition of Brazilian gold from Portugal, what major conflict would England surely have lost?
(a) The American Revolutionary War.
(b) The Hundred Years' War.
(c) The Napoleonic War.
(d) The Spanish War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Haitians do to avoid forced labor in the mines?

2. In which country did Emilian Zapata introduce radical agrarian reform?

3. What is the most universal health problem in Latin America?

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

5. What great mathematical principle did the Mayans discover before any other people in history?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was a US government geological survey conducted of the Brazilian Amazon?

2. Explain the "horseman and horse" relationship between Latin America and Europe.

3. Today, what resource is mined in Minas Gerais, and by whom?

4. Why can many Latin American countries not sustain the developments of manufacture?

5. What is "expropriation"?

6. Describe some of the technological accomplishments of the original inhabitants of Latin American--the Mayans, Incas, and Aztecs.

7. What were some of the major accomplishments, etc, that Latin American sugar and slave trade contributed to directly?

8. Why must the USA import so many raw materials from abroad?

9. Who was Emiliano Zapata and what did he accomplish?

10. What is the significance of the rainbow in Haiti?

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