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These are all True or False questions.

 

1.)Geographers often approach Bolivia through the lens of highland and lowland dynamics.  The country had a major revolution, fostered by the MNR, in 1952.  One of the consequences of this was a land reform.  Following the 1952 revolution, most of Bolivian efforts to develop remained in the highlands.

 

2.)Of the three countries Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay, Bolivia has the least uniform (or, phrased another way, the most regionally diverse) geography

 

3.)The most complete interpretation of what was happening in the world economy after the Second World War from the point of view of Argentina was provided by the famous development economist Raul Prebisch.  He had examined the world in terms of shifting trade behavior between its economic center and periphery.  Based on his research, he elaborated significant findings of "unequal exchange."

 

4.)Jorge Fodor asserts that the trade triangle no longer worked for Argentina after 1946.  Argentina was of course one part of this triangle.  The United Kingdom and France were the other crucial elements.

 

5.)Montevideo provides an excellent example of a primate city.

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6.)Paraguay is a country where the people display a strongly patriotic sense of nation.  its giant neighbor, Portuguese-speaking Brazil, is of little consequence for Paraguayan development.

 

7.)Until recently, land was extremely cheap in most of landlocked Paraguay.  The country thus lent itself to utopian settlement experiments, which came from across the political spectrum.

 

8.)The Treaty of Itaipu of 1973 was a bilateral accord.  It resulted in the construction of a modest dam of this name that never began to fulfil its electricity-generating capacity.

 

9.)Until recently, the Paraguayan Chaco saw extremely limited development within an overall poor country.  Among the most visible efforts to change this stands the work of the German-speaking Mennonite colonists, most of whom came to the Chaco from the Soviet Union around 1930.

 

10.) The Bolivian city with the largest population is the administrative capital of La Paz.

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11.)The country with the largest population in Spanish-speaking South America is Ecuador.

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12.)In her seminal article "The Colombian Crisis in Historical Perspective," Catherine LeGrand takes the position that Colombia's long record of instabilities can be explained near exclusively through drugs and oil.

 

13.)In the longer span of history, Bolivia was a less significant producer of coca than Colombia.

 

14.)Paraguay confronts more development obstacles than Uruguay.

 

15.) For much of the twentieth century, Uruguay was regarded as a model democracy.  The country built for a period South America's most successful model of social welfare.

 

16.)MERCOSUR, established during the 1990s, is South America's most important trading bloc.  The original four members were Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Paraguay.

 

17.)In Colombia's major phase of drug trafficking, the city of Medellin gained a reputation as a very dysfunctional place, with very high levels of urban violence.  Today, Medellin is gaining international awards as a city of innovation, with many positive changes in its infrastructure.

 

18.)In the 1980s, Bolivia became a textbook example for the rigid application of neoliberal policies.

 

19.)The major cities of South America all have significant portions of their populations living in squatter settlements.  The generic name for these varies from country to country.  In Argentina, for example, the settlements are termed villas miserias, while in Peru they are known as barriadas.

20.)Change in Uruguayan land use was slow indeed for much of the latter twentieth century.  In recent decades, however, the country has undertaken massive planting of managed forests, in order to produce eventually pulp and paper.  These forest projects have the potential to raise rural incomes at the national scale.