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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous saying was associated with Guanajuato?

2. What resources caused the boom of the Minas Gerais region?

3. What year did Brazil abolish slavery?

4. What law did Juan Domingo Peron impose in Argentina in compliance with minimum wage?

5. Why does the author feel that the USA was not plundered like Latin America?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is silicosis?

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

3. What was discovered in the Minas Gerais region?

4. Who is Jose Artigas and what did he accomplish?

5. Who were the miners of Minas Gerais, and where did they come from?

6. Why was guano, or nitrate, so valuable to Europeans?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose three major Latin American exports and examine their histories according to the text. Which countries export the products? Which countries purchase the products? How do the products play into the international market? Be sure to relate the histories according to the author.

Essay Topic 2

Who was Tupac Amaru? What were his ties to ancient Latin America? What causes did he champion? How did he meet his end?

Essay Topic 3

According to "Seven Years Later," has Latin America made any progress since the novel was originally published? Why or why not? Have any areas gained ground at all? Have any areas lost ground? How, internationally, can the world market attribute to Latin America's advancement?

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