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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Markos Commandante
Emiliano Zapata
realistic
2. 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.
a commonwealth
William Walker
One Hundred Years of Solitude
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
3. ...
Carlota
Platt Amendment
Jacobo Arbenz
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
4. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The President
Lazaro Cardenas
5. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
1999
Hatuey
muralists
Puerto Rico
6. 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
Morazan
Augusto Sandino
Panama's independence
Americanism
7. 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
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Platt Amendment
muralists
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
8. 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.
the bogotazo
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Hopscotch
9. Latin America is not a...
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
continent
1917 Constitution
10. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Andres Bello
Balun Canan
Augusto Sandino
11. 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
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Oscar Arias Sanchez
modernism
Somoza family
12. Cuba is in the ______ sea
Francisco Madero
democratic Caesarism
Caribbean
continent
13. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Ruben Dario
Hopscotch
Trujillo
choteo
14. 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
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Jose Santos Zelaya
Jacobo Arbenz
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
15. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Jose Marti
Jorge Luis Borges
Morazan
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
16. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
1999
Porfirio Diaz
Ruben Dario
Gran Colombia
17. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Puerto Rico
Francisco Madero
Porfirio Diaz
Somoza family
18. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Porfirio Diaz
Poetry
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
a commonwealth
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
Francisco Madero
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Carlota
20. 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
Jose Santos Zelaya
manufacturing
modernism
1917 Constitution
21. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
Francisco Morazan
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Andres Bello
Jose Marti
22. 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
The President
Gran Colombia
democratic Caesarism
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
23. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
1999
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Jose Marti
William Walker
24. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
parella - tortilla
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Francisco Madero
Raul Salinas de Gotari
25. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
manufacturing
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
26. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
Columbia
an independent country
Gerardo Machado Morales
Ruben Dario
27. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
modernism
the U.S.
Athens of South America
Honduras
28. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Lazaro Cardenas
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Jacobo Arbenz
29. Although geographically belongs to Central Panama - not always associated this country with the region politically - perhaps because for centuries has been linked to South America. Since Colombia became independent from Spain in 1821 - Panama was a
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30. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
Albizu Campos
choteo
William Walker
The President
31. 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
thirty-three (33)
Indians
The Mexican Revolution
Markos Commandante
32. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Ruben Dario
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Gerardo Machado Morales
Manuel Antonio Noriega
33. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Hopscotch
El Salvador
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
34. America is not only...
the U.S.
Emiliano Zapata
Porfirio Diaz
Francisco Madero
35. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
gaucho (cowboy)
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
The Mexican Revolution
William Walker
36. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
Timber
Carlota
Porfirio Diaz
Emiliano Zapata
37. 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
Platt Amendment
1999
Lazaro Cardenas
The President
38. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
Treaty of Ancon
Mexican Revolution
Jacobo Arbenz
Markos Commandante
39. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
Athens of South America
Hopscotch
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
church
40. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Francisco Morazan
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Jorge Luis Borges
Lazaro Cardenas
41. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
church
Ruben Dario
Hopscotch
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
42. 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
Santa Anna
Augusto Sandino
Balun Canan
43. 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
Porfirio Diaz
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Morazan
Jose Marti
44. 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
Benito Juarez
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
El Salvador
parella - tortilla
45. 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
William Walker
Jacobo Arbenz
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Latin American realism
46. 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
silver
manufacturing
Markos Commandante
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
47. ...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Antonio Conselherio
silver
Ruben Dario
48. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Carlota
Americanism
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
49. 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
church
Porfirio Diaz
Albizu Campos
Platt Amendment
50. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
Hatuey
Carlota
silver
Borinquineers