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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 resources caused the boom of the Minas Gerais region?

2. What country is the top petroleum exporter in the world (at the time the book was written)?

3. What did Andre Gunder Frank discover upon analyzing the history of Latin America's "metropolis-satellite" relationships?

4. What mineral, almost absent in the USA, is necessary to make aluminum?

5. What are the environmental problems with many of Latin America's cash crops?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the USA attempt to discourage the world market from purchasing oil from Brazil?

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

4. Compare modern-day Potosi to the silver-rush Potosi.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the beginnings of the conquest of Latin America. What factors led the Spanish to finance Columbus's trip? What were the results of that voyage? What were the missions of Cortez and Pizarro? How did the natives react to the invasion? What were the factors in the defeat of the great civilizations of Latin America?

Essay Topic 2

What is protectionism? Has Latin American employed protectionism as a policy? Why or why not? What country or countries, according to the author, are the shining example of protectionism? How does protectionism work (or not work) as an economic policy?

Essay Topic 3

Think about the phrase "History repeats itself." Do you think history really repeat itself? Why or why not? Use examples from the text to support your argument. Include specific cases in Latin American history.

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