3. What rationalization was used by the conquerors who enslaved the native populations?
(a) They declared the Indians owed them labor because of their defeat in the war.
(b) They denied that Indians had souls, and therefore were no better than beasts of burden.
(c) They claimed the Indians enjoyed the work.
(d) They would share the wealth with the Indians eventually.

4. After gold, what was the next most important product Latin America could produce?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Corn.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Glass.

5. What resource is exploited in modern-day Potosi?
(a) Tin.
(b) Gold.
(c) Silver.
(d) Diamonds.

6. What do coffee and petroleum have in common?
(a) They each foster higher profits for the consuming country than for the producing country.
(b) They each need very particular growing conditions.
(c) They are each dark in color and used all over the world.
(d) They are each rapidly falling in price and usefulness.

7. Who was Juan Vicente Gomez?
(a) The Bolivian revolutionary.
(b) The king of Venezuelan oil.
(c) The ambassador of Ecuador to Britain.
(d) The President of Brazilian.

8. How did Asia acquire rubber tree seeds?
(a) Chinese merchants came to Brazil and took the seeds back.
(b) Henry Wickham smuggled seeds out of Brazil.
(c) The trees were discovered deep in the forest.
(d) Christopher Columbus took seeds back for Ferdinand and Isabella.

9. How much of the native population of Latin American died of diseases contracted from the invaders?
(a) One-sixteenth of the population died.
(b) One-third of the population died.
(c) Only ten people died.
(d) Over half of the population died.

10. What year was Artigas's agrarian reform--"free land, free man," instituted?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1815.

11. What illegal practice drains Brazil of more than $100 million a year?
(a) Smuggling.
(b) Forgery.
(c) Filibusters.
(d) Polygamy.

12. What labor force did the author eyewitness?
(a) The rubber plantations of Brazil.
(b) The silver mines of Potosi.
(c) The oil refineries of Uruguay.
(d) The tin mines of Bolivia.

13. What did Columbus witness on his first voyage, while passing Tenerife?
(a) He witnessed a volcanic eruption.
(b) He witnessed an avalanche.
(c) He witnessed a falling meteorite.
(d) He witness an eclipse.

14. What is expropriation?
(a) It is the Indian's policies of attacking government outposts relentlessly.
(b) It is the government's practice of usurping the Indians and claiming their lands.
(c) It is the separation of the native peoples from the main population.
(d) It is the tithe the Indians are expected to pay the government.

15. Who was Augusto Cesar Sandino?
(a) He was a Brazilian revolutionary famous for standing up to the government.
(b) He was a Mexican peasant who became President of Mexico.
(c) He was a Salvadoran coffee plantation owner.
(d) He was a Nicaraguan guerilla who fought for the peasant's land rights.