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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
thirty-three (33)
Porfirio Diaz
Morazan
illiterate (cant read or write)
2. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
The President
Oscar Arias Sanchez
the U.S.
Timber
3. 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
Trujillo
democratic Caesarism
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
continent
4. Bolivar's dream was to unify Latin America in a large political entity. So in 1819 established in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolivar) the Republic of Colombia - comprised of the territories that today belong to Venezuela - Colombia - Panama and Ecuador. T
an independent country
Porfirio Diaz
Jacobo Arbenz
Gran Colombia
5. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Platt Amendment
Emiliano Zapata
the guachafita
Shoe
6. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Somoza family
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Poetry
Puerto Rico
7. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Caribbean
Somoza family
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Columbia
8. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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9. 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
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Augusto Sandino
William Walker
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
10. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Columbia
Jose Marti
The President
11. 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
Costa Rica
Tlatelolco
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Morazan
12. 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.
Columbia
Puerto Rico
William Walker
Trujillo
13. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Lazaro Cardenas
Francisco Morazan
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Manuel Antonio Noriega
14. In his speech to poetry - Bello recommends return to nature and leave the civilized Europe << >> - << light region misery i>. The Venezuelan humanist sentiments expressed in a neoclassical romantic full of clues.
modernism
Tlatelolco
Emiliano Zapata
Andres Bello
15. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
Gerardo Machado Morales
Somoza family
an independent country
Andres Bello
16. 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
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Jose Santos Zelaya
Columbia
17. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
Morazan
Lazaro Cardenas
manufacturing
realistic
18. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
modernism
Indians
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Somoza family
19. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
Panama's independence
Jose Marti
Shoe
parella - tortilla
20. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Jorge Luis Borges
1917 Constitution
Balun Canan
Jacobo Arbenz
21. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Costa Rica
Porfirio Diaz
Lazaro Cardenas
Francisco Madero
22. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Borinquineers
thirty-three (33)
continent
Antonio Conselherio
23. 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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24. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
realistic
Timber
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Hatuey
25. 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.
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Jose Marti
the U.S.
26. ...
United Fruit Company
Jose Marti
Puerto Rico
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
27. on 1 January 1994 - the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) started the armed struggle in the southern state of Chiapas - led by Subcomandante supposedly identified as Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente - exprofessor Metropolitina Autonomous U
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Somoza family
Markos Commandante
Latin American realism
28. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
an independent country
Jose Marti
Emiliano Zapata
choteo
29. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Francisco Madero
Mexican Revolution
the bogotazo
30. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
muralists
Trujillo
Antonio Conselherio
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
31. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Gerardo Machado Morales
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Augusto Sandino
Honduras
32. the U.S. occupation army remained in Cuba until 1902. In accordance with the Platt Amendment to the Cuban government is obliged not to conclude international treaties without U.S. consent - to authorize the establishment of naval bases in the United
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Platt Amendment
the guachafita
Tlatelolco
33. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
United Fruit Company
Oscar Arias Sanchez
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
34. ...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Treaty of Ancon
continent
thirty-three (33)
35. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
William Walker
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
El Salvador
Somoza family
36. 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
Augusto Cesar Sandino
The Mexican Revolution
Balun Canan
the bogotazo
37. 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.
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Porfirio Diaz
Benito Juarez
38. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Americanism
Ruben Dario
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Hopscotch
39. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
Americanism
Markos Commandante
Francisco Morazan
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
40. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Hatuey
United Fruit Company
Timber
Francisco Morazan
41. 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
the U.S.
Ruben Dario
Hopscotch
42. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Shoe
Lazaro Cardenas
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Hopscotch
43. America is not only...
Columbia
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
the U.S.
United Fruit Company
44. Latin America is not a...
El Salvador
continent
democratic Caesarism
Treaty of Ancon
45. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
Raul Salinas de Gotari
United Fruit Company
Latin American realism
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
46. 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
Antonio Conselherio
Francisco Madero
Mexican Revolution
Americanism
47. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
silver
Jorge Luis Borges
Lazaro Cardenas
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
48. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
Puerto Rico
Ruben Dario
church
Puerto Rico
49. Spain's signature popular dishes
Borinquineers
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
the bogotazo
parella - tortilla
50. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
church
Puerto Rico
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Balun Canan