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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
modernism
El Salvador
parella - tortilla
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
2. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
choteo
The Mexican Revolution
modernism
a commonwealth
3. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Augusto Cesar Sandino
1917 Constitution
Jacobo Arbenz
Columbia
4. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
Jacobo Arbenz
manufacturing
Carlota
silver
5. 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
Francisco Morazan
Somoza family
Gran Colombia
6. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Francisco Morazan
Poetry
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Gran Colombia
7. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
an independent country
Athens of South America
Hatuey
Lazaro Cardenas
8. Spain's signature popular dishes
parella - tortilla
Borinquineers
Gerardo Machado Morales
Treaty of Ancon
9. 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
Andres Bello
realistic
Augusto Sandino
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
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.
Jorge Luis Borges
Hopscotch
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Benito Juarez
11. 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
Carlota
Albizu Campos
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Puerto Rico
12. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
church
Emiliano Zapata
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
13. 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.
Morazan
the bogotazo
Jacobo Arbenz
1917 Constitution
14. 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 ..
Gerardo Machado Morales
students
thirty-three (33)
Jose Marti
15. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
The Mexican Revolution
Americanism
Augusto Sandino
Antonio Conselherio
16. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Indians
Andres Bello
Ruben Dario
17. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
Albizu Campos
Jose Marti
Puerto Rico
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
18. 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.
Indians
Andres Bello
democratic Caesarism
the U.S.
19. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Ruben Dario
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
continent
Borinquineers
20. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
The Mexican Revolution
Francisco Madero
21. 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
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Jose Marti
Ruben Dario
Borinquineers
22. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Jose Santos Zelaya
The Mexican Revolution
gaucho (cowboy)
illiterate (cant read or write)
23. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Puerto Rico
Jorge Luis Borges
modernism
Somoza family
24. 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
Honduras
Francisco Madero
Timber
Morazan
25. 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.
parella - tortilla
Jose Marti
Jorge Luis Borges
Shoe
26. 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
Andres Bello
Andres Bello
Lazaro Cardenas
Santa Anna
27. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
28. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
thirty-three (33)
Americanism
Carlota
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
29. 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
Mexican Revolution
Lazaro Cardenas
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
William Walker
30. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Puerto Rico
Platt Amendment
31. 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
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
an independent country
parella - tortilla
32. 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
Markos Commandante
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Porfirio Diaz
33. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
The Mexican Revolution
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Lazaro Cardenas
Morazan
34. 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
Andres Bello
Athens of South America
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Somoza family
35. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
choteo
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
illiterate (cant read or write)
Antonio Conselherio
36. 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
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
37. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Costa Rica
Gerardo Machado Morales
Jose Santos Zelaya
Andres Bello
38. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Jose Santos Zelaya
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Platt Amendment
thirty-three (33)
39. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
illiterate (cant read or write)
Porfirio Diaz
Jorge Luis Borges
40. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
realistic
Treaty of Ancon
The President
Francisco Morazan
41. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
Athens of South America
the bogotazo
Porfirio Diaz
thirty-three (33)
42. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
manufacturing
Manuel Antonio Noriega
parella - tortilla
Andres Bello
43. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
students
Timber
Shoe
United Fruit Company
44. 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.
El Salvador
Panama's independence
Timber
Honduras
45. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
Somoza family
Hatuey
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
manufacturing
46. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
Treaty of Ancon
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
choteo
a commonwealth
47. 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 imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Mexican Revolution
students
Morazan
48. 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
Antonio Conselherio
democratic Caesarism
Ruben Dario
Markos Commandante
49. 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
church
Augusto Sandino
Jose Marti
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
50. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Indians
the guachafita
an independent country
Gerardo Machado Morales