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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
Jose Marti
El Salvador
Timber
2. 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
Athens of South America
The President
Ruben Dario
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
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
1999
muralists
Jose Santos Zelaya
4. 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
Platt Amendment
Albizu Campos
Trujillo
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
5. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
Latin American realism
Hopscotch
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
gaucho (cowboy)
6. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
silver
Antonio Conselherio
Markos Commandante
Porfirio Diaz
7. 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
8. Spain's signature popular dishes
1999
parella - tortilla
the bogotazo
Americanism
9. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
Mexican Revolution
the U.S.
silver
thirty-three (33)
10. 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
democratic Caesarism
realistic
Albizu Campos
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
11. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
a commonwealth
Jorge Luis Borges
silver
Ruben Dario
12. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
1999
church
1917 Constitution
Oscar Arias Sanchez
13. 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
Panama's independence
the U.S.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
14. 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
Ruben Dario
El Salvador
Morazan
muralists
15. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
gaucho (cowboy)
Hatuey
Antonio Conselherio
realistic
16. 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.
Panama's independence
Jacobo Arbenz
Andres Bello
Shoe
17. _____ is not a part of Latin America
1999
Ruben Dario
Andres Bello
Puerto Rico
18. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
William Walker
Jacobo Arbenz
1999
Francisco Madero
19. 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.
Americanism
Andres Bello
Carlota
Costa Rica
20. 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.
Honduras
Augusto Cesar Sandino
William Walker
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
21. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
Columbia
Hopscotch
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Albizu Campos
22. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
Ruben Dario
an independent country
Platt Amendment
silver
23. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Balun Canan
United Fruit Company
Santa Anna
Gran Colombia
24. 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 outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
1999
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
realistic
25. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
Somoza family
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
choteo
26. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
realistic
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Puerto Rico
modernism
27. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
parella - tortilla
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Latin American realism
28. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
modernism
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Jose Santos Zelaya
Borinquineers
29. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
30. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Tlatelolco
Francisco Morazan
Caribbean
Indians
31. America is not only...
Gran Colombia
Francisco Morazan
the U.S.
Balun Canan
32. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Albizu Campos
The Mexican Revolution
silver
33. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
United Fruit Company
Santa Anna
Carlota
El Salvador
34. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
democratic Caesarism
the bogotazo
Santa Anna
One Hundred Years of Solitude
35. 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
Treaty of Ancon
Trujillo
Ruben Dario
36. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
United Fruit Company
illiterate (cant read or write)
The President
One Hundred Years of Solitude
37. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
Jorge Luis Borges
Panama's independence
manufacturing
Trujillo
38. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
the bogotazo
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Morazan
39. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
Lazaro Cardenas
Oscar Arias Sanchez
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Raul Salinas de Gotari
40. 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
parella - tortilla
Jose Marti
Puerto Rico
church
41. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
realistic
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Hatuey
silver
42. ...
1917 Constitution
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Trujillo
43. 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
Costa Rica
Porfirio Diaz
Gran Colombia
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
44. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Indians
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
continent
students
45. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
Hopscotch
the guachafita
Treaty of Ancon
Jose Santos Zelaya
46. Bogota
Jose Marti
Athens of South America
Lazaro Cardenas
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
47. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
Puerto Rico
silver
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
48. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
Gerardo Machado Morales
muralists
Lazaro Cardenas
Augusto Sandino
49. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
The Mexican Revolution
a commonwealth
parella - tortilla
50. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Puerto Rico
choteo
illiterate (cant read or write)
Columbia