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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
El Salvador
Honduras
manufacturing
Jorge Luis Borges
2. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Jose Marti
1999
3. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Francisco Morazan
Gran Colombia
Augusto Sandino
Americanism
4. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
a commonwealth
Manuel Antonio Noriega
the guachafita
Puerto Rico
5. 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
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Augusto Cesar Sandino
gaucho (cowboy)
6. 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
Platt Amendment
Carlota
gaucho (cowboy)
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
7. 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.
gaucho (cowboy)
Tlatelolco
Andres Bello
Gerardo Machado Morales
8. 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.
Ruben Dario
Emiliano Zapata
Porfirio Diaz
Benito Juarez
9. ...
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
The Mexican Revolution
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Gerardo Machado Morales
10. America is not only...
Porfirio Diaz
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
the U.S.
11. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Shoe
the bogotazo
the guachafita
12. 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.
Hopscotch
Jacobo Arbenz
The Mexican Revolution
1999
13. 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.
silver
the bogotazo
democratic Caesarism
Gerardo Machado Morales
14. 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
Gerardo Machado Morales
Somoza family
1999
Andres Bello
15. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
church
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
thirty-three (33)
the U.S.
16. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
Porfirio Diaz
Hatuey
illiterate (cant read or write)
Athens of South America
17. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
thirty-three (33)
realistic
Borinquineers
18. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
United Fruit Company
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Francisco Morazan
Porfirio Diaz
19. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Lazaro Cardenas
Latin American realism
Puerto Rico
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
United Fruit Company
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Morazan
Manuel Antonio Noriega
21. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
modernism
Jose Santos Zelaya
muralists
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
22. 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.
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Porfirio Diaz
Lazaro Cardenas
Shoe
23. 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
students
democratic Caesarism
manufacturing
Tlatelolco
24. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
Puerto Rico
choteo
manufacturing
Gran Colombia
25. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Balun Canan
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
the guachafita
26. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
Platt Amendment
Athens of South America
Andres Bello
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
27. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Puerto Rico
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
28. 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
Poetry
Americanism
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
the guachafita
29. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Costa Rica
The President
30. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
gaucho (cowboy)
Oscar Arias Sanchez
1999
31. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
Gran Colombia
a commonwealth
Balun Canan
United Fruit Company
32. 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
Hatuey
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Porfirio Diaz
33. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Gerardo Machado Morales
Carlota
Borinquineers
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
34. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Costa Rica
Porfirio Diaz
students
muralists
35. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Hopscotch
Porfirio Diaz
the bogotazo
36. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
illiterate (cant read or write)
thirty-three (33)
Francisco Madero
Columbia
37. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Augusto Sandino
Jorge Luis Borges
Ruben Dario
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
38. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Jorge Luis Borges
Panama's independence
Jose Marti
Balun Canan
39. 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
the bogotazo
William Walker
The Mexican Revolution
Augusto Cesar Sandino
40. 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.
Timber
The Mexican Revolution
Morazan
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
41. 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 ..
Gran Colombia
William Walker
students
thirty-three (33)
42. 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
muralists
United Fruit Company
silver
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
43. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
Americanism
Indians
Andres Bello
Trujillo
44. Bogota
Gerardo Machado Morales
Athens of South America
Platt Amendment
silver
45. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
a commonwealth
Oscar Arias Sanchez
modernism
Augusto Sandino
46. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
Indians
Hatuey
the guachafita
continent
47. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
Costa Rica
Borinquineers
Honduras
Somoza family
48. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Albizu Campos
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
modernism
Poetry
49. Cuba is in the ______ sea
Caribbean
Ruben Dario
a commonwealth
Santa Anna
50. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
an independent country
silver
church
modernism