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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. 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
a commonwealth
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Indians
2. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Gran Colombia
Poetry
Jacobo Arbenz
3. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
democratic Caesarism
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
parella - tortilla
4. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
Puerto Rico
Emiliano Zapata
democratic Caesarism
Jose Marti
5. 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.
thirty-three (33)
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Andres Bello
6. 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
El Salvador
modernism
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Platt Amendment
7. 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.
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Timber
Treaty of Ancon
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
8. 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
Morazan
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Gran Colombia
Mexican Revolution
9. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
Costa Rica
church
silver
The President
10. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Jorge Luis Borges
Mexican Revolution
The President
William Walker
11. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
muralists
United Fruit Company
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Costa Rica
12. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
Indians
manufacturing
Antonio Conselherio
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
13. Cuba is in the ______ sea
Caribbean
Jorge Luis Borges
Latin American realism
Gran Colombia
14. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
Augusto Cesar Sandino
church
thirty-three (33)
Mexican Revolution
15. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
choteo
Ruben Dario
democratic Caesarism
silver
16. 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
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Jose Marti
Antonio Conselherio
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
17. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Lazaro Cardenas
choteo
an independent country
18. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Hatuey
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Borinquineers
the U.S.
19. 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
Markos Commandante
Carlota
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
students
20. 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
Morazan
modernism
Tlatelolco
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
21. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
Latin American realism
Columbia
gaucho (cowboy)
The Mexican Revolution
22. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Jacobo Arbenz
Andres Bello
23. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Lazaro Cardenas
illiterate (cant read or write)
Costa Rica
Timber
24. America is not only...
Latin American realism
the U.S.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
gaucho (cowboy)
25. 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
Andres Bello
Treaty of Ancon
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
muralists
26. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
Ruben Dario
Honduras
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Augusto Sandino
27. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
an independent country
Borinquineers
Augusto Sandino
realistic
28. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Francisco Madero
Francisco Morazan
choteo
29. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Somoza family
Antonio Conselherio
Columbia
30. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Latin American realism
Carlota
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
William Walker
31. 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
Albizu Campos
Porfirio Diaz
Athens of South America
Tlatelolco
32. 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
Shoe
Porfirio Diaz
Lazaro Cardenas
Timber
33. 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
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Platt Amendment
Somoza family
1917 Constitution
34. 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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35. Laureano Vallenilla Lanz was the author of the most eloquent defense of despotism Latin America: Democratic Caesarism - translated into Italian by order of Mussolini to show a happy anticipation of the fascist system.
Carlota
Francisco Morazan
democratic Caesarism
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
36. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
illiterate (cant read or write)
continent
Hatuey
37. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
The President
Andres Bello
an independent country
Antonio Conselherio
38. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
illiterate (cant read or write)
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Carlota
El Salvador
39. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Hopscotch
muralists
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
40. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
Somoza family
Puerto Rico
modernism
an independent country
41. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
Treaty of Ancon
muralists
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Oscar Arias Sanchez
42. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
the guachafita
gaucho (cowboy)
Puerto Rico
Poetry
43. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Antonio Conselherio
Gran Colombia
Lazaro Cardenas
Costa Rica
44. 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
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Platt Amendment
modernism
45. ...
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Gerardo Machado Morales
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
46. 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.
Poetry
parella - tortilla
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Platt Amendment
47. 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
Indians
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Porfirio Diaz
Somoza family
48. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
parella - tortilla
Hopscotch
Porfirio Diaz
Jacobo Arbenz
49. 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
democratic Caesarism
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Santa Anna
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
50. 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
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
the bogotazo
Benito Juarez