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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. At the next election the revolutionary triumph Jacobo Arbenz - who took office in 1951. The following year - his government passed the Agrarian Reform Law - which benefited hundreds of thousands of families.
Panama's independence
a commonwealth
Jacobo Arbenz
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
2. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Jose Marti
Porfirio Diaz
El Salvador
3. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
church
Timber
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
the guachafita
4. Bogota
Athens of South America
Andres Bello
Raul Salinas de Gotari
continent
5. had three stages of the Mexican Revolution: the wartime period (1910-1920) - the organizing stage (1920-1940) and the conservative stage (1940-2000). It was an armed struggle that started in 1910 - with an uprising led by Francisco Madero against for
The Mexican Revolution
Mexican Revolution
church
Panama's independence
6. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Trujillo
Francisco Morazan
Benito Juarez
Shoe
7. 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.
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
The Mexican Revolution
Andres Bello
Benito Juarez
8. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
Jacobo Arbenz
gaucho (cowboy)
Athens of South America
modernism
9. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
choteo
illiterate (cant read or write)
United Fruit Company
modernism
10. 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
Jose Marti
Jacobo Arbenz
the bogotazo
Morazan
11. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Francisco Madero
Borinquineers
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
12. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
The Mexican Revolution
Caribbean
an independent country
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
13. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Somoza family
Ruben Dario
Albizu Campos
1917 Constitution
14. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
United Fruit Company
illiterate (cant read or write)
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
modernism
15. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
choteo
thirty-three (33)
Caribbean
El Salvador
16. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Puerto Rico
choteo
Emiliano Zapata
a commonwealth
17. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Puerto Rico
Manuel Antonio Noriega
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Benito Juarez
18. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Oscar Arias Sanchez
illiterate (cant read or write)
Jorge Luis Borges
Porfirio Diaz
19. America is not only...
the U.S.
1917 Constitution
Costa Rica
Lazaro Cardenas
20. 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
democratic Caesarism
Gerardo Machado Morales
Lazaro Cardenas
21. 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
Jose Marti
Tlatelolco
Raul Salinas de Gotari
an independent country
22. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Puerto Rico
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Platt Amendment
23. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
silver
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
an independent country
Hopscotch
24. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
Antonio Conselherio
Trujillo
Andres Bello
Treaty of Ancon
25. 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
Jorge Luis Borges
Athens of South America
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
a commonwealth
26. 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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27. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
Costa Rica
Jose Santos Zelaya
muralists
Platt Amendment
28. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
democratic Caesarism
Puerto Rico
29. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
an independent country
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Jacobo Arbenz
Americanism
30. of 1909-1933 Nicaragua suffered heavily U.S. intervention - guided by the dollar diplomacy. United States first imposed its customs control and then occupied the country with Marine detachments. The occupation was unopposed until 1927 - when the gene
illiterate (cant read or write)
Indians
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Augusto Sandino
31. most significantly the turbulent period was the abolition of slavery - proclaimed earlier than most of the Americas. In these circumstances - Spain tried to reconquer the country - but the Mexican forces led by General Spanish imperialists foiled the
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Columbia
Puerto Rico
Santa Anna
32. 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
Raul Salinas de Gotari
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Trujillo
thirty-three (33)
33. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
choteo
Markos Commandante
modernism
34. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Augusto Sandino
1917 Constitution
Antonio Conselherio
35. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Indians
the U.S.
Treaty of Ancon
Jacobo Arbenz
36. few years later - came Luis Munoz Marin. It began as a nationalist patriot - but eventually changed his political philosophy by replacing the concept of the Commonwealth - ie domestic autonomy without international legal personality. Mu
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Latin American realism
the U.S.
democratic Caesarism
37. 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
muralists
parella - tortilla
Latin American realism
Raul Salinas de Gotari
38. Constitution noted the historic legal standards of the Revolution. The most important articles state that (a) is prohibited from the Church acquires - owns or manages real estate - (b) soil and subsoil belong to the State - (c) is right to organize l
1917 Constitution
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Markos Commandante
thirty-three (33)
39. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Hopscotch
One Hundred Years of Solitude
40. During the presidency of Gustavo Dias Ordaz - in the Plaza of the Three Cultures - in Tlateloco - police and political shock guard attacked a group of ..
students
Ruben Dario
illiterate (cant read or write)
Emiliano Zapata
41. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Balun Canan
Markos Commandante
Tlatelolco
Lazaro Cardenas
42. was a general role in the struggle against Maximilian. He was a conservative vain - accustomed to using rice powder to whiten the face. She is quoted as saying: << Poor Mexico - so far from God and so close to the United States >>. His autocratic rul
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Porfirio Diaz
Antonio Conselherio
Panama's independence
43. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Francisco Morazan
Porfirio Diaz
parella - tortilla
Columbia
44. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
realistic
Benito Juarez
Lazaro Cardenas
Balun Canan
45. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Borinquineers
Jose Marti
Costa Rica
46. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
Balun Canan
manufacturing
Porfirio Diaz
Francisco Morazan
47. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Porfirio Diaz
Puerto Rico
Carlota
students
48. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
continent
Treaty of Ancon
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Porfirio Diaz
49. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Porfirio Diaz
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Carlota
El Salvador
50. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Jose Santos Zelaya
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Antonio Conselherio
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis