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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Santa Anna
Americanism
manufacturing
2. 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
Francisco Madero
Andres Bello
Emiliano Zapata
3. Spain's signature popular dishes
the U.S.
1917 Constitution
manufacturing
parella - tortilla
4. 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
Jacobo Arbenz
modernism
Somoza family
the bogotazo
5. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
a commonwealth
Lazaro Cardenas
Hopscotch
Somoza family
6. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
thirty-three (33)
students
Puerto Rico
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
7. Cuba is in the ______ sea
the guachafita
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Ruben Dario
Caribbean
8. 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.
Panama's independence
Santa Anna
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Timber
9. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
modernism
Porfirio Diaz
students
choteo
10. ...
choteo
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Jorge Luis Borges
11. 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.
Hopscotch
Gerardo Machado Morales
Benito Juarez
Mexican Revolution
12. 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
Borinquineers
1999
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Porfirio Diaz
13. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Gerardo Machado Morales
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Caribbean
14. ...
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Borinquineers
Lazaro Cardenas
15. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Carlota
Indians
Hatuey
Oscar Arias Sanchez
16. 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
gaucho (cowboy)
El Salvador
Markos Commandante
Mexican Revolution
17. 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.
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Trujillo
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Puerto Rico
18. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Indians
Jose Santos Zelaya
Gran Colombia
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
19. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
gaucho (cowboy)
The President
Columbia
20. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
realistic
Andres Bello
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
21. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Panama's independence
Andres Bello
Latin American realism
Carlota
22. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Platt Amendment
Tlatelolco
choteo
Hopscotch
23. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Poetry
Americanism
the bogotazo
24. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
Borinquineers
Jose Marti
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Jacobo Arbenz
25. 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
Puerto Rico
Indians
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
26. 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.
democratic Caesarism
Morazan
Jacobo Arbenz
muralists
27. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
Americanism
Morazan
Jacobo Arbenz
1999
28. 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
Andres Bello
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Lazaro Cardenas
Caribbean
29. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Puerto Rico
Santa Anna
Platt Amendment
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
30. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
Mexican Revolution
The President
choteo
Latin American realism
31. Latin America is not a...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
continent
Ruben Dario
Antonio Conselherio
32. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
an independent country
El Salvador
the guachafita
Augusto Cesar Sandino
33. 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
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
parella - tortilla
Jacobo Arbenz
1917 Constitution
34. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
gaucho (cowboy)
Francisco Morazan
Jose Marti
One Hundred Years of Solitude
35. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
church
The President
Ruben Dario
The Mexican Revolution
36. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Oscar Arias Sanchez
muralists
Poetry
37. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Emiliano Zapata
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
William Walker
38. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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39. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Hatuey
Gran Colombia
Antonio Conselherio
Augusto Sandino
40. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
illiterate (cant read or write)
Andres Bello
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Indians
41. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
democratic Caesarism
Gerardo Machado Morales
Puerto Rico
Augusto Cesar Sandino
42. 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
Jose Marti
Hopscotch
Tlatelolco
The President
43. 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.
Gerardo Machado Morales
Costa Rica
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Shoe
44. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
church
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Andres Bello
Ruben Dario
45. 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
Platt Amendment
Gerardo Machado Morales
Gran Colombia
Francisco Madero
46. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
Jacobo Arbenz
Indians
Santa Anna
Borinquineers
47. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
Puerto Rico
Porfirio Diaz
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Treaty of Ancon
48. 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
Americanism
Morazan
Augusto Sandino
the guachafita
49. 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
Athens of South America
Morazan
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Augusto Sandino
50. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Balun Canan
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Santa Anna
Porfirio Diaz