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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. Cuba is in the ______ sea
Caribbean
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Antonio Conselherio
Shoe
2. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Puerto Rico
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
illiterate (cant read or write)
3. Walker dreamed establish a slave empire in Central America which had himself elected president of Nicaragua in 1856. Seeing the danger - the other Central American governments fought the famous filibuster to defeat him and shoot him in 1860.
1917 Constitution
William Walker
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Benito Juarez
4. ...
Santa Anna
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Hatuey
5. took office in 1857 - proud of his Zapotec Indian blood. Juarez promulgated the reform laws that established the suppression of the religious orders - the confiscation of church property and the obligation to register the birth - marriage and death.
Benito Juarez
choteo
Tlatelolco
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
6. under President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz - happened a sad afternoon for Mexican university. In the Plaza of the Three Cultures in Tlatelolco - students marched in support of university autonomy and the rights of students were attacked at political and poli
Indians
The Mexican Revolution
William Walker
Tlatelolco
7. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Platt Amendment
Athens of South America
church
Antonio Conselherio
8. Although geographically belongs to Central Panama - not always associated this country with the region politically - perhaps because for centuries has been linked to South America. Since Colombia became independent from Spain in 1821 - Panama was a
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9. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
continent
Balun Canan
Oscar Arias Sanchez
students
10. attempts were made to end the chaos by a Conservative government - inspired by Generalissimo Franco's Falange. That government failed and was deposed by General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. To maintain his dictatorship with the consent of the United States
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
parella - tortilla
Latin American realism
Columbia
11. Failing all attempts to achieve intellectual independence own artistic expression - a group of poets began the revitalization of literature in Castilian. His aesthetic soon won in Latin America and influenced the writers of Spain. Then they exchanged
Jose Santos Zelaya
an independent country
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Francisco Morazan
12. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
a commonwealth
Francisco Madero
Jacobo Arbenz
the guachafita
13. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
illiterate (cant read or write)
an independent country
church
Trujillo
14. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
silver
modernism
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
15. America is not only...
a commonwealth
the U.S.
continent
The Mexican Revolution
16. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
continent
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Athens of South America
17. Spain's signature popular dishes
Tlatelolco
parella - tortilla
Columbia
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
18. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
the bogotazo
Porfirio Diaz
Morazan
Caribbean
19. liberalism division was due to the disappointment of those who opposed the recent policy of the regime ministers millionaires. In 1948 - while celebrating the Pan American Conference - Jorge Gaitan - leader of the leftist branch of liberalism - was k
The Mexican Revolution
the bogotazo
Jacobo Arbenz
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
20. Somoza dynasty was fought by guerrilla followers of the ideology of Sandino. The oppression and corruption of the Somoza popular recrimination. Finally the different sectors - forgetting ideological differences - came together and defeated the Somoza
Somoza family
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Costa Rica
Balun Canan
21. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Columbia
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Francisco Morazan
Santa Anna
22. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Puerto Rico
Trujillo
Somoza family
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
23. On the contrary - the crisis during the economic downturn accelerated the impoverishment and encouraged corruption. Hurricanes - which at that time were more intense and more destructive than usual - the situation worsened. In these circumstances - i
the guachafita
Jacobo Arbenz
Albizu Campos
Columbia
24. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Hopscotch
the bogotazo
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
1917 Constitution
25. One of the inmates in New York patriots - led the expedition to liberate the island. His hunch written in a letter to his mother served and died in the battlefield. He bequeathed to posterity his desire for freedom - to which he had devoted his life
Jose Marti
Poetry
Antonio Conselherio
the U.S.
26. before election fraud and government waste - the opposition candidate launched the famous Plan de San Luis Potosi; policy proposal considered a call to rebellion that began the Mexican Revolution. He was proclaimed provisional president in 1911.
Columbia
Timber
muralists
Augusto Sandino
27. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Gerardo Machado Morales
Costa Rica
Lazaro Cardenas
Jacobo Arbenz
28. Buenaventura Baez - a former puppet Santana - another traitor - since the presidency conspired to grant special rights and naval bases to the United States - prior to its full annexation. President Ulysses S. Grant enthusiastically supported the anne
Hatuey
Hopscotch
silver
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
29. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
Manuel Antonio Noriega
the U.S.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Latin American realism
30. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
gaucho (cowboy)
Athens of South America
Hatuey
Andres Bello
31. Latin America is not a...
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
continent
Poetry
Augusto Sandino
32. The fundamental objective of Hispanic realism seemed to go against the Latin American artistic desire. By offering a slice of life - a writer is unable to show the full reality of the new world I wanted to say - because this new school had at its cor
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
gaucho (cowboy)
Latin American realism
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
33. In 1930 Trujillo assumed absolute powers of their homeland. He ruled for thirty years as if the country were his personal fiefdom. The tyrant imposed a reign of terror in the Dominican Republic - while its overseas agents carried out their plans to t
Platt Amendment
The President
Trujillo
Puerto Rico
34. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
manufacturing
Carlota
Panama's independence
Tlatelolco
35. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
The Mexican Revolution
students
Indians
Athens of South America
36. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
Benito Juarez
a commonwealth
muralists
thirty-three (33)
37. The brother of a president has been accused of being the mastermind in murder and having received bribes of millions of dollars from drug traffickers.
Tlatelolco
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Hopscotch
Balun Canan
38. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
1917 Constitution
Panama's independence
manufacturing
39. Intellectuals and university students - allied with some army sergeants - deposed tyrant. One of these - Fulgencio Batista - stenographer of Staff - gave the final blow to the dictatorship. Opened in period that became the absolute ruler or the emine
Benito Juarez
Lazaro Cardenas
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Panama's independence
40. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
Jose Santos Zelaya
Lazaro Cardenas
Mexican Revolution
Hatuey
41. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
Carlota
a commonwealth
Puerto Rico
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
42. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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43. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
modernism
Jacobo Arbenz
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Jose Marti
44. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Morazan
Jorge Luis Borges
an independent country
The President
45. administrative integrity and dynamism he conquered much popularity. Conducted more work for the benefit of the dispossessed classes than their predecessors. Implemented the Constitution of 1917 - land was expropriated and distributed forty-five milli
Augusto Cesar Sandino
parella - tortilla
Lazaro Cardenas
Ruben Dario
46. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
Somoza family
an independent country
Markos Commandante
William Walker
47. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
El Salvador
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Puerto Rico
Francisco Morazan
48. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
Borinquineers
Carlota
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Ruben Dario
49. the illiterate indigenous noble. In the south - continued the struggle for Land and Freedom << >> - << convinced that it is better to die standing than live on your knees >> - slogan adopted by the Republicans after the Civil War in Spain.
Puerto Rico
Shoe
Francisco Morazan
Jacobo Arbenz
50. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
Honduras
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Antonio Conselherio
parella - tortilla