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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Emiliano Zapata
Columbia
Puerto Rico
Jacobo Arbenz
2. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
Jose Marti
The Mexican Revolution
Timber
Panama's independence
3. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Carlota
Panama's independence
the guachafita
Manuel Antonio Noriega
4. Bogota
Jose Marti
the guachafita
Athens of South America
choteo
5. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
1999
Carlota
the U.S.
muralists
6. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
modernism
continent
Jose Marti
a commonwealth
7. ...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Columbia
United Fruit Company
8. 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
Lazaro Cardenas
Markos Commandante
Francisco Madero
Carlota
9. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
Jacobo Arbenz
Jorge Luis Borges
Puerto Rico
Porfirio Diaz
10. 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
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Carlota
Porfirio Diaz
a commonwealth
11. 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.
Jose Marti
William Walker
Balun Canan
students
12. 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
Latin American realism
El Salvador
Puerto Rico
Tlatelolco
13. 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
manufacturing
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
the U.S.
14. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
The President
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Jose Marti
Costa Rica
15. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
parella - tortilla
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
silver
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
16. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
church
manufacturing
1999
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
17. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
Latin American realism
Timber
the guachafita
Augusto Cesar Sandino
18. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Francisco Morazan
an independent country
Ruben Dario
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 ..
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Timber
students
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
20. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Gran Colombia
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Raul Salinas de Gotari
democratic Caesarism
21. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Porfirio Diaz
Emiliano Zapata
Morazan
Lazaro Cardenas
22. 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
realistic
Jose Marti
Jacobo Arbenz
Athens of South America
23. 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
Carlota
a commonwealth
Timber
Augusto Sandino
24. 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
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Americanism
democratic Caesarism
25. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
Mexican Revolution
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Treaty of Ancon
Emiliano Zapata
26. Latin America is not a...
Andres Bello
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
continent
Francisco Morazan
27. 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.
Puerto Rico
Timber
silver
Somoza family
28. Constitution noted the historic legal standards of the Revolution. The most important articles state that (a) is prohibited from the Church acquires - owns or manages real estate - (b) soil and subsoil belong to the State - (c) is right to organize l
Columbia
1917 Constitution
Ruben Dario
Santa Anna
29. 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
Honduras
Athens of South America
Hopscotch
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
30. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
gaucho (cowboy)
1999
Hatuey
thirty-three (33)
31. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
Jacobo Arbenz
realistic
Shoe
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
32. 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
Caribbean
Columbia
Americanism
33. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
Francisco Morazan
gaucho (cowboy)
Jorge Luis Borges
realistic
34. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Manuel Antonio Noriega
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
The President
35. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Americanism
36. 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
Gerardo Machado Morales
Panama's independence
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Trujillo
37. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
Borinquineers
illiterate (cant read or write)
Hatuey
the U.S.
38. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Augusto Sandino
Puerto Rico
Carlota
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
39. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
Balun Canan
Tlatelolco
Trujillo
Andres Bello
40. ...
Lazaro Cardenas
Jacobo Arbenz
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Latin American realism
41. 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
Morazan
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Somoza family
students
42. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
illiterate (cant read or write)
Andres Bello
silver
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
43. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
William Walker
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Lazaro Cardenas
Indians
44. 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
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Athens of South America
The President
the guachafita
45. 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
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Porfirio Diaz
Albizu Campos
Mexican Revolution
46. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Jose Marti
Hopscotch
Francisco Morazan
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
47. 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
Gran Colombia
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Platt Amendment
Ruben Dario
48. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Lazaro Cardenas
Timber
Gerardo Machado Morales
Augusto Sandino
49. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
realistic
Gran Colombia
Francisco Madero
Jose Marti
50. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Puerto Rico
Columbia
choteo
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis