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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
parella - tortilla
thirty-three (33)
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
2. ...
modernism
Morazan
Oscar Arias Sanchez
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
3. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
Jose Marti
democratic Caesarism
Honduras
a commonwealth
4. 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
Trujillo
gaucho (cowboy)
Morazan
Benito Juarez
5. 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
Platt Amendment
Shoe
choteo
the U.S.
6. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
Oscar Arias Sanchez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Borinquineers
Carlota
7. 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
the guachafita
1917 Constitution
Lazaro Cardenas
One Hundred Years of Solitude
8. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Antonio Conselherio
Jacobo Arbenz
Balun Canan
Andres Bello
9. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
continent
illiterate (cant read or write)
The President
Carlota
10. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Gerardo Machado Morales
Markos Commandante
11. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
a commonwealth
1917 Constitution
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Francisco Madero
12. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Caribbean
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Puerto Rico
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
13. 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
Raul Salinas de Gotari
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Treaty of Ancon
Athens of South America
14. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
church
the U.S.
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Albizu Campos
15. 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
Porfirio Diaz
silver
Ruben Dario
the bogotazo
16. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
The Mexican Revolution
Lazaro Cardenas
muralists
the guachafita
17. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
Americanism
Treaty of Ancon
Jose Marti
Panama's independence
18. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Puerto Rico
Andres Bello
a commonwealth
Lazaro Cardenas
19. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
Antonio Conselherio
Morazan
1999
The President
20. 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
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
United Fruit Company
Emiliano Zapata
Santa Anna
21. America is not only...
Morazan
Jose Marti
the U.S.
Andres Bello
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
Morazan
Gran Colombia
William Walker
Platt Amendment
23. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Carlota
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Puerto Rico
Santa Anna
24. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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25. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
Santa Anna
Lazaro Cardenas
Manuel Antonio Noriega
gaucho (cowboy)
26. 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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27. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
Ruben Dario
gaucho (cowboy)
Trujillo
Markos Commandante
28. 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
choteo
Markos Commandante
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
29. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Trujillo
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Balun Canan
Antonio Conselherio
30. 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
Benito Juarez
a commonwealth
Jorge Luis Borges
Somoza family
31. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Jorge Luis Borges
Gerardo Machado Morales
church
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
32. 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
The President
1999
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
the guachafita
33. 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
Trujillo
Gran Colombia
Jose Santos Zelaya
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
34. 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
silver
Jacobo Arbenz
35. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Manuel Antonio Noriega
students
Carlota
36. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Indians
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Ruben Dario
Jacobo Arbenz
37. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Treaty of Ancon
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Poetry
an independent country
38. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
Athens of South America
Porfirio Diaz
Jorge Luis Borges
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
39. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
an independent country
Andres Bello
Augusto Sandino
Timber
40. 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
Albizu Campos
the guachafita
Puerto Rico
silver
41. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
Francisco Madero
manufacturing
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Porfirio Diaz
42. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Francisco Morazan
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Hopscotch
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
43. Bogota
Athens of South America
Augusto Sandino
Hopscotch
the guachafita
44. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
United Fruit Company
Gran Colombia
choteo
Oscar Arias Sanchez
45. 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
Markos Commandante
United Fruit Company
Caribbean
46. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
Treaty of Ancon
Columbia
Lazaro Cardenas
realistic
47. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
Puerto Rico
Jose Marti
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Oscar Arias Sanchez
48. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Tlatelolco
illiterate (cant read or write)
Lazaro Cardenas
Jose Santos Zelaya
49. 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
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Tlatelolco
Jose Marti
muralists
50. 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
1999
Francisco Morazan
Augusto Sandino
Lazaro Cardenas