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

2. What region took over the rubber industry from Brazil in 1913?
(a) Australia.
(b) Finland.
(c) Asia.
(d) Indonesia.

3. What famous saying was associated with Guanajuato?
(a) "Gold and silver to be had, for a price."
(b) "A stitch in time saves nine."
(c) "A city of wisdom."
(d) "Father a merchant, son a gentleman, grandson a beggar."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. If slaves arrived in the colony and were too ill to work, what happened to them?

3. Who was the English monarch at the time of this incident?

4. From the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century, what peoples were the center of the slave trade?

5. What is silicosis?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was Juan Jose Arevalo, who as President of Guatemala instituted new and better educational and labor standards, overthrown?

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

5. What were some of the factors in the conquistadors' victory over the native peoples of America?

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

7. How did the USA attempt to derail the Brazilian oil market?

8. What drove Spain to finance Columbus' expedition?

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

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

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