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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
parella - tortilla
Porfirio Diaz
modernism
Santa Anna
2. 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
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Indians
Timber
Tlatelolco
3. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
United Fruit Company
a commonwealth
Hopscotch
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
4. 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
Jose Marti
silver
Benito Juarez
Shoe
5. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
church
the guachafita
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
6. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Puerto Rico
muralists
Markos Commandante
7. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
Andres Bello
Antonio Conselherio
Francisco Madero
Lazaro Cardenas
8. America is not only...
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Gran Colombia
the U.S.
the bogotazo
9. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
the bogotazo
Emiliano Zapata
Honduras
10. 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.
El Salvador
Andres Bello
Gerardo Machado Morales
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
11. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Americanism
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Francisco Morazan
One Hundred Years of Solitude
12. 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
Mexican Revolution
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Timber
13. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Francisco Morazan
Albizu Campos
Puerto Rico
manufacturing
14. 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
Poetry
Platt Amendment
Trujillo
Borinquineers
15. 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.
Shoe
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Lazaro Cardenas
Santa Anna
16. 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
Gran Colombia
parella - tortilla
Emiliano Zapata
17. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
One Hundred Years of Solitude
silver
Jorge Luis Borges
18. 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.
a commonwealth
Jacobo Arbenz
Costa Rica
Oscar Arias Sanchez
19. Spain's signature popular dishes
democratic Caesarism
gaucho (cowboy)
parella - tortilla
The President
20. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Jorge Luis Borges
Antonio Conselherio
thirty-three (33)
1999
21. ...
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Columbia
Jorge Luis Borges
22. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
Shoe
Emiliano Zapata
Platt Amendment
illiterate (cant read or write)
23. 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
1917 Constitution
the U.S.
Jose Santos Zelaya
Puerto Rico
24. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
manufacturing
Jose Santos Zelaya
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Mexican Revolution
25. Latin America is not a...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Mexican Revolution
Latin American realism
continent
26. Bogota
Athens of South America
Benito Juarez
students
Albizu Campos
27. 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
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Santa Anna
Somoza family
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
Lazaro Cardenas
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Platt Amendment
Shoe
29. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Jose Marti
Antonio Conselherio
continent
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 ...
The President
The Mexican Revolution
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
1999
31. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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32. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
1917 Constitution
Hopscotch
Carlota
33. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
1917 Constitution
Antonio Conselherio
students
Ruben Dario
34. 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
Albizu Campos
Carlota
Manuel Antonio Noriega
35. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Andres Bello
Lazaro Cardenas
Benito Juarez
modernism
36. 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.
Raul Salinas de Gotari
democratic Caesarism
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Puerto Rico
37. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Caribbean
William Walker
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Shoe
38. ...
democratic Caesarism
Markos Commandante
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
39. 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
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Platt Amendment
Borinquineers
Columbia
40. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
Markos Commandante
Hatuey
church
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
41. 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.
Trujillo
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Antonio Conselherio
Shoe
42. Cuba is in the ______ sea
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Balun Canan
Antonio Conselherio
Caribbean
43. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
Poetry
illiterate (cant read or write)
Somoza family
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
44. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Mexican Revolution
Columbia
Ruben Dario
Antonio Conselherio
45. 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
Latin American realism
1917 Constitution
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
El Salvador
46. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
an independent country
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Morazan
47. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
muralists
Augusto Sandino
church
a commonwealth
48. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Shoe
Ruben Dario
the U.S.
Somoza family
49. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
Costa Rica
Jose Santos Zelaya
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
gaucho (cowboy)
50. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
William Walker
Jacobo Arbenz
United Fruit Company
Mexican Revolution