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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. Which US President announced a policy of human rights for Latin America?
(a) President Henry Ford.
(b) President George Washington.
(c) President Jimmy Carter.
(d) President William Taft.

2. Which country has the best chance of establishing a Common Market of Latin America?
(a) Haiti.
(b) Uruguay.
(c) Ecuador.
(d) Brazil.

3. In Brazil, what was Law 56,570, passed on July 6, 1965?
(a) This law freed Brazil from all foreign debt.
(b) This law made gauchos legal servants of the state.
(c) This law made divorce unlawful.
(d) This law reserved the petrochemical industry for the state.

4. In 1968, what product did Uruguay agree to limit so the country could receive goods under the US agricultural surplus law?
(a) Silver.
(b) Ponchos.
(c) Scotch.
(d) Rice.

5. In Argentina, what often happens to the politically outspoken?
(a) They are given professorships.
(b) They disappear.
(c) They broadcast on television.
(d) They are publicly condemned.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Uruguay, how many workers died in the railway gelignite explosion of 1977?

2. What major company quickened the downfall of Brazilian tape factory Adesite?

3. From where does imperialist capital capture foreign markets?

4. How, in the 1800s, did Britain pay for most of its Latin American goods?

5. How did John Thomas North "support" the War of the Pacific?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are "negative lists"?

2. Why is Latin America unable to expand its trade horizon?

3. What is the official political image of de Rosas?

4. What is Brazil's relationship to Paraguay?

5. How, in Argentina, are political and economic revolutionaries dealt with?

6. How does the international market separate buyers?

7. Why, once prosperous, is Paraguay today an extremely poor and backward country?

8. Without what, according to the author, would the USA not have been able to become independent?

9. How did Bolivia achieve general amnesty?

10. How have foreign loans kept Latin America indebted to foreigners?

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