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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
Latin American realism
Andres Bello
Benito Juarez
United Fruit Company
2. 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
Hatuey
Shoe
choteo
Albizu Campos
3. 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
Gran Colombia
Athens of South America
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Platt Amendment
4. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
realistic
continent
thirty-three (33)
Oscar Arias Sanchez
5. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Treaty of Ancon
Emiliano Zapata
Benito Juarez
Gran Colombia
6. 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
Andres Bello
Ruben Dario
Francisco Madero
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
7. 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
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Somoza family
Augusto Sandino
Caribbean
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
Gran Colombia
Morazan
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
The President
9. 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
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Latin American realism
Tlatelolco
Panama's independence
10. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
Puerto Rico
The President
Panama's independence
Jose Marti
11. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Benito Juarez
Americanism
Platt Amendment
Puerto Rico
12. 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
Manuel Antonio Noriega
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Indians
continent
13. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Caribbean
Indians
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
continent
14. 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
Platt Amendment
Antonio Conselherio
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Mexican Revolution
15. 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.
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
El Salvador
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Benito Juarez
16. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Indians
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
17. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
The Mexican Revolution
Jorge Luis Borges
realistic
Puerto Rico
18. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Jose Marti
continent
Francisco Morazan
19. 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 ..
modernism
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
students
20. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
Francisco Madero
continent
Markos Commandante
United Fruit Company
21. 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.
an independent country
a commonwealth
Honduras
Shoe
22. 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
Emiliano Zapata
Shoe
Jorge Luis Borges
Tlatelolco
23. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
1917 Constitution
Honduras
manufacturing
Andres Bello
24. 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.
Andres Bello
Albizu Campos
The President
Treaty of Ancon
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
Santa Anna
Caribbean
William Walker
26. 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.
The Mexican Revolution
Oscar Arias Sanchez
The President
Raul Salinas de Gotari
27. Bogota
The President
Carlota
Athens of South America
Morazan
28. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Columbia
Puerto Rico
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Augusto Sandino
29. 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
Mexican Revolution
Hopscotch
students
Lazaro Cardenas
30. Cuba is in the ______ sea
Caribbean
students
thirty-three (33)
Somoza family
31. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
One Hundred Years of Solitude
the U.S.
Hatuey
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
32. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
the guachafita
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
1917 Constitution
33. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
William Walker
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Costa Rica
34. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Treaty of Ancon
realistic
Antonio Conselherio
35. 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
Jose Santos Zelaya
Lazaro Cardenas
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Gerardo Machado Morales
36. Spain's signature popular dishes
thirty-three (33)
parella - tortilla
Jose Santos Zelaya
a commonwealth
37. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
modernism
Jacobo Arbenz
Francisco Madero
Albizu Campos
38. 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
Emiliano Zapata
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Gran Colombia
church
39. 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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40. 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
Gerardo Machado Morales
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Somoza family
41. 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.
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
William Walker
Panama's independence
Americanism
42. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Ruben Dario
Porfirio Diaz
Albizu Campos
Hopscotch
43. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
Americanism
Hopscotch
Ruben Dario
the guachafita
44. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
Columbia
gaucho (cowboy)
William Walker
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
45. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
students
an independent country
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Jorge Luis Borges
46. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
Morazan
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Porfirio Diaz
Hatuey
47. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
Shoe
Andres Bello
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
El Salvador
48. _____ is not a part of Latin America
modernism
Puerto Rico
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Poetry
49. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Jorge Luis Borges
Carlota
Emiliano Zapata
Shoe
50. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
1999
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Athens of South America