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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
Jacobo Arbenz
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Porfirio Diaz
2. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
manufacturing
Jacobo Arbenz
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
the U.S.
3. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
Gerardo Machado Morales
Oscar Arias Sanchez
realistic
Manuel Antonio Noriega
4. 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.
Indians
Ruben Dario
Trujillo
Jacobo Arbenz
5. 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
continent
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Trujillo
Platt Amendment
6. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Benito Juarez
modernism
Puerto Rico
gaucho (cowboy)
7. ...
El Salvador
Porfirio Diaz
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
students
8. 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
1999
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Morazan
Emiliano Zapata
9. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
Hopscotch
an independent country
Balun Canan
the bogotazo
10. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
Lazaro Cardenas
Porfirio Diaz
Caribbean
Hatuey
11. 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
Ruben Dario
Latin American realism
Indians
Gran Colombia
12. 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
Albizu Campos
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Jose Marti
the guachafita
13. 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.
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Morazan
manufacturing
William Walker
14. 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
Tlatelolco
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Borinquineers
Mexican Revolution
15. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
Ruben Dario
Andres Bello
Lazaro Cardenas
the guachafita
16. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Hopscotch
The Mexican Revolution
Latin American realism
Jacobo Arbenz
17. 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
1999
Porfirio Diaz
silver
Poetry
18. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Jorge Luis Borges
Poetry
Costa Rica
thirty-three (33)
19. 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
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Santa Anna
Gerardo Machado Morales
20. ...
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Markos Commandante
United Fruit Company
Santa Anna
21. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
muralists
Caribbean
Latin American realism
Americanism
22. 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
Tlatelolco
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
students
23. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
1999
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Platt Amendment
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
24. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Hopscotch
Francisco Morazan
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Raul Salinas de Gotari
25. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
Antonio Conselherio
democratic Caesarism
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Treaty of Ancon
26. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
Jorge Luis Borges
choteo
thirty-three (33)
Carlota
27. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
the U.S.
Ruben Dario
the bogotazo
Latin American realism
28. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
Costa Rica
Americanism
choteo
Carlota
29. 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
Jose Marti
1999
Lazaro Cardenas
the bogotazo
30. 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
1917 Constitution
Balun Canan
Morazan
Manuel Antonio Noriega
31. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
Tlatelolco
a commonwealth
Honduras
United Fruit Company
32. 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
Lazaro Cardenas
illiterate (cant read or write)
Santa Anna
choteo
33. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
gaucho (cowboy)
Morazan
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Borinquineers
34. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Porfirio Diaz
Augusto Sandino
The President
35. 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
continent
1917 Constitution
muralists
36. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
the U.S.
modernism
students
Raul Salinas de Gotari
37. Bogota
Jacobo Arbenz
Costa Rica
Athens of South America
1917 Constitution
38. 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.
silver
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
illiterate (cant read or write)
Timber
39. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Emiliano Zapata
Puerto Rico
Tlatelolco
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
40. 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
Puerto Rico
Gerardo Machado Morales
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
41. 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.
Jorge Luis Borges
Benito Juarez
Costa Rica
Panama's independence
42. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
parella - tortilla
Andres Bello
Ruben Dario
1999
43. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Jose Santos Zelaya
Americanism
an independent country
44. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Carlota
Panama's independence
Columbia
Tlatelolco
45. 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
El Salvador
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
The President
46. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
modernism
Emiliano Zapata
Panama's independence
Gran Colombia
47. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
Lazaro Cardenas
illiterate (cant read or write)
the U.S.
church
48. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
Gran Colombia
Francisco Madero
Costa Rica
Balun Canan
49. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Jacobo Arbenz
Indians
Ruben Dario
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
50. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
Lazaro Cardenas
The Mexican Revolution
Jorge Luis Borges
Timber