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Title: Despite Lula's __________, which increased welfare payments to 12 million poor, about __________ ...
Post by: m671 on Mar 16, 2018
Despite Lula's __________, which increased welfare payments to 12 million poor, about __________ percent of the population still lives under the poverty line.
 
  a. programas oportunidades; 10
   b. Bolsa Famlia; 25
  c. abertura; 50
   d. Casa Improvo; 90

 Q. 2

Dependency theory, long applied to Latin American countries including Brazil, has its roots in the writings of __________.
 
  a. John Locke
  b. Thomas Hobbes
  c. Karl Marx
  d. Samuel Huntington

 Q. 3

Dependency theory argues that Latin American poverty is the result of __________.
 
  a. flaws in domestic institutions
  b. corrupt rulers
  c. exploitation by rich countriesespecially the U.S.
  d. local political culture that accepts corruption at the expense of the common good

 Q. 4

Who won the 2014 Brazilian presidential election?
 
  a. Dilma Rousseff
  b. Michel Temer
  c. Luiz Incio Lula de Silva
  d. Fernando Collor de Mello

 Q. 5

Brazilian senators are elected through a __________ electoral system.
 
  a. pure proportional representation
  b. first past the post (FPTP)
  c. single-transferable vote
  d. two-round proportional representation

 Q. 6

How many senators from each state serve in Brazil's upper house?
 
  a. 2
  b. 3
  c. 10
  d. 25

 Q. 7

Which of the following best describes Brazilian political parties?
 
  a. cohesive
  b. ecumenical
  c. weak
  d. strong


Title: Despite Lula's __________, which increased welfare payments to 12 million poor, about __________ ...
Post by: SERGH005 on Mar 16, 2018
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