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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
Hatuey
manufacturing
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
silver
2. 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
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Lazaro Cardenas
Puerto Rico
Mexican Revolution
3. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Antonio Conselherio
Francisco Morazan
William Walker
Balun Canan
4. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
thirty-three (33)
gaucho (cowboy)
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
5. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Ruben Dario
Hopscotch
Benito Juarez
Oscar Arias Sanchez
6. 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
Gran Colombia
manufacturing
Albizu Campos
7. 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
Lazaro Cardenas
thirty-three (33)
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Augusto Sandino
8. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Francisco Madero
Albizu Campos
1999
9. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
Gerardo Machado Morales
1999
Gran Colombia
Honduras
10. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
manufacturing
Morazan
a commonwealth
Somoza family
11. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
Gerardo Machado Morales
United Fruit Company
realistic
Carlota
12. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
Athens of South America
Andres Bello
the U.S.
Puerto Rico
13. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
Somoza family
realistic
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
democratic Caesarism
14. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Emiliano Zapata
1917 Constitution
Panama's independence
15. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Mexican Revolution
Gran Colombia
illiterate (cant read or write)
16. 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
Lazaro Cardenas
Augusto Cesar Sandino
One Hundred Years of Solitude
17. Spain's signature popular dishes
Jose Marti
Costa Rica
Gerardo Machado Morales
parella - tortilla
18. America is not only...
the U.S.
Columbia
realistic
Americanism
19. 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
manufacturing
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
William Walker
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
20. Cuba is in the ______ sea
Jacobo Arbenz
The Mexican Revolution
Panama's independence
Caribbean
21. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Hopscotch
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
22. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
Americanism
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
the guachafita
United Fruit Company
23. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Ruben Dario
Benito Juarez
Lazaro Cardenas
Costa Rica
24. 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
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
church
students
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
25. 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
Jorge Luis Borges
Puerto Rico
Latin American realism
Gran Colombia
26. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
Markos Commandante
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Jacobo Arbenz
thirty-three (33)
27. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
Puerto Rico
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
muralists
United Fruit Company
28. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
Jose Santos Zelaya
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Lazaro Cardenas
Oscar Arias Sanchez
29. 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
Ruben Dario
Trujillo
Albizu Campos
parella - tortilla
30. 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 ..
illiterate (cant read or write)
Andres Bello
Hatuey
students
31. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
Ruben Dario
Caribbean
church
Indians
32. 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.
Shoe
Treaty of Ancon
Lazaro Cardenas
Benito Juarez
33. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Costa Rica
Honduras
the guachafita
Francisco Morazan
34. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Timber
Hopscotch
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Porfirio Diaz
35. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
El Salvador
muralists
silver
democratic Caesarism
36. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
manufacturing
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Hopscotch
Puerto Rico
37. 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.
William Walker
modernism
United Fruit Company
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
38. 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
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
democratic Caesarism
Augusto Sandino
39. 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
the U.S.
Ruben Dario
Emiliano Zapata
Mexican Revolution
40. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
Ruben Dario
choteo
Trujillo
Lazaro Cardenas
41. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Santa Anna
Panama's independence
Antonio Conselherio
42. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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43. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
Athens of South America
Panama's independence
Porfirio Diaz
choteo
44. 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.
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Jacobo Arbenz
a commonwealth
modernism
45. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
church
Jorge Luis Borges
The President
Poetry
46. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
Lazaro Cardenas
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
an independent country
students
47. ...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
an independent country
Lazaro Cardenas
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
48. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Tlatelolco
Mexican Revolution
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
49. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
Carlota
Antonio Conselherio
The President
Ruben Dario
50. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
Indians
Hopscotch
Costa Rica
Treaty of Ancon