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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
Markos Commandante
choteo
the guachafita
1917 Constitution
2. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Francisco Morazan
Timber
William Walker
3. 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.
Treaty of Ancon
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
William Walker
Jorge Luis Borges
4. 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
Emiliano Zapata
Manuel Antonio Noriega
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Latin American realism
5. 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
Augusto Sandino
Antonio Conselherio
illiterate (cant read or write)
Balun Canan
6. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
Shoe
Treaty of Ancon
a commonwealth
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
7. 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
Porfirio Diaz
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Gerardo Machado Morales
Jacobo Arbenz
8. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
muralists
Jose Santos Zelaya
an independent country
realistic
9. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Markos Commandante
the U.S.
Ruben Dario
One Hundred Years of Solitude
10. 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.
United Fruit Company
gaucho (cowboy)
Benito Juarez
muralists
11. ...
Shoe
muralists
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
students
12. Spain's signature popular dishes
parella - tortilla
Porfirio Diaz
Treaty of Ancon
Latin American realism
13. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
Puerto Rico
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
muralists
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
14. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
Jacobo Arbenz
Santa Anna
Borinquineers
The President
15. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
1917 Constitution
realistic
modernism
Caribbean
16. America is not only...
Andres Bello
Shoe
the U.S.
Lazaro Cardenas
17. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
a commonwealth
parella - tortilla
Porfirio Diaz
Santa Anna
18. 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
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Benito Juarez
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
19. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Andres Bello
Treaty of Ancon
Panama's independence
Columbia
20. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Carlota
Oscar Arias Sanchez
democratic Caesarism
Hopscotch
21. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
Augusto Sandino
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
The Mexican Revolution
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
22. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
Jose Santos Zelaya
muralists
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
the guachafita
23. 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
Jacobo Arbenz
Trujillo
Latin American realism
Shoe
24. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
continent
Puerto Rico
Americanism
El Salvador
25. 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
Andres Bello
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Costa Rica
Carlota
26. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Antonio Conselherio
Treaty of Ancon
Jacobo Arbenz
Emiliano Zapata
27. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
Jose Marti
Lazaro Cardenas
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
realistic
28. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Augusto Sandino
the bogotazo
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Ruben Dario
29. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
thirty-three (33)
Hatuey
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Gerardo Machado Morales
30. 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
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Ruben Dario
Andres Bello
31. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
muralists
Benito Juarez
Gerardo Machado Morales
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
32. 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
continent
Morazan
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Andres Bello
33. Cuba is in the ______ sea
Caribbean
Costa Rica
students
Puerto Rico
34. 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
gaucho (cowboy)
Francisco Madero
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
35. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
choteo
Jose Santos Zelaya
continent
Jorge Luis Borges
36. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
Francisco Morazan
muralists
Andres Bello
Francisco Madero
37. 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
1999
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Latin American realism
Albizu Campos
38. 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
Honduras
Hatuey
Jose Marti
39. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
thirty-three (33)
Ruben Dario
Shoe
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
40. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Timber
Costa Rica
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
41. Bogota
The President
Athens of South America
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
One Hundred Years of Solitude
42. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Puerto Rico
church
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Santa Anna
43. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Oscar Arias Sanchez
the guachafita
Shoe
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
44. 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
Carlota
Markos Commandante
Albizu Campos
El Salvador
45. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Antonio Conselherio
Balun Canan
Lazaro Cardenas
the bogotazo
46. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
William Walker
realistic
Jose Marti
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
47. 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.
Shoe
Benito Juarez
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Lazaro Cardenas
48. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Jacobo Arbenz
Benito Juarez
Lazaro Cardenas
Puerto Rico
49. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Morazan
Gerardo Machado Morales
The President
50. 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
Jorge Luis Borges
Santa Anna
Balun Canan
Ruben Dario