2. What law did Juan Domingo Peron impose in Argentina in compliance with minimum wage?
(a) The Agrarian Revolution.
(b) The Latafundios Abolition Act.
(c) The Statute of the Peon.
(d) The Agricultural Division Act.

3. For whom did Montezuma mistake the invading Europeans?
(a) For his enemies in the south.
(b) For the god Quetzalcoatl.
(c) For the god Tenochtitlan.
(d) For King Ferdinand himself.

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

5. What do miners chew to counteract some effects of working in the tin mines?
(a) Coca leaves.
(b) Wrigley's gum.
(c) Leather straps.
(d) Tobacco.

6. To what purpose, according to Bernal Diaz del Castillo, did the Spanish come to Mexico?
(a) To serve God and His Majesty and also to get riches.
(b) To learn of the native peoples of the strange new land.
(c) To build houses and start a new civilization.
(d) To bring the natives European literature and guns.

7. What is Lake Maracaibo?
(a) It is a huge deposit of oil in Venezuela.
(b) It is the only source of freshwater in Argentina.
(c) It is the favorite vacation spot of Brazil.
(d) It is the great lake of Nicaragua.

8. What region took over the rubber industry from Brazil in 1913?
(a) Australia.
(b) Indonesia.
(c) Asia.
(d) Finland.

9. How did American interests in Venezuelan crude oil attempt to derail the Brazilian crude oil economy?
(a) They rated Brazilian crude oil a "C".
(b) They attempted a blockade of the Brazilian coastline.
(c) They tried to blackmail the USSR into only using Venezuelan oil.
(d) They created a conflict with the Brazilian government.

10. Where did Columbus think he had landed, even during his third voyage?
(a) He thought he was off the coast of Asia.
(b) He thought he was off the coast of Venezuela.
(c) He thought he was off the coast of Africa.
(d) He thought he was off the coast of Hawaii.

11. How were the rubber workers in Brazil paid?
(a) They were paid in kind, with dried meat, manioc flour, and unrefined sugar.
(b) There were paid with visits to their families abroad.
(c) They were paid with gold coins on an hourly rate.
(d) They were paid with fine cloths and ribbons.

12. What mineral, almost absent in the USA, is necessary to make aluminum?
(a) Hydrogen.
(b) Neon.
(c) Bauxite.
(d) Iron.

13. What was the key to success in the sugar industry?
(a) Slave traffic.
(b) Temperate climate.
(c) Plows.
(d) Imported European workers.

14. What nickname does the author give the USA?
(a) The great consumer.
(b) The end of iron.
(c) The world policeman.
(d) The vast unknowable.

15. What did Mariano Melgarejo force a British ambassador to drink as punishment for sneering at the local chichas?
(a) Water from the Amazon.
(b) A tub of stale beer.
(c) A barrel of chocolate.
(d) A bottle of bad wine.