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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Indians
silver
Hatuey
Poetry
2. 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
Morazan
Porfirio Diaz
Emiliano Zapata
Andres Bello
3. 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
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Mexican Revolution
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
modernism
4. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Puerto Rico
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Santa Anna
Treaty of Ancon
5. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
the U.S.
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Jose Santos Zelaya
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
6. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
choteo
Somoza family
manufacturing
Andres Bello
7. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
Poetry
democratic Caesarism
an independent country
The President
8. 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
choteo
Athens of South America
Jose Marti
Trujillo
9. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
students
Ruben Dario
a commonwealth
El Salvador
10. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
Somoza family
modernism
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Antonio Conselherio
11. ...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Columbia
Latin American realism
Jacobo Arbenz
12. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
William Walker
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
the U.S.
the guachafita
13. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
Jacobo Arbenz
Hatuey
Jose Santos Zelaya
Treaty of Ancon
14. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
Honduras
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Gerardo Machado Morales
1999
15. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
Benito Juarez
Borinquineers
Ruben Dario
choteo
16. 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.
Jose Santos Zelaya
Benito Juarez
Athens of South America
Andres Bello
17. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Caribbean
Americanism
Francisco Morazan
Gerardo Machado Morales
18. 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.
Porfirio Diaz
Timber
Santa Anna
a commonwealth
19. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
1999
the guachafita
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Athens of South America
20. 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
Latin American realism
El Salvador
Lazaro Cardenas
Timber
21. 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.
Porfirio Diaz
Raul Salinas de Gotari
continent
The President
22. 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
Benito Juarez
Platt Amendment
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
23. Cuba is in the ______ sea
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
an independent country
Caribbean
Balun Canan
24. 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.
continent
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Shoe
Costa Rica
25. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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26. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
Ruben Dario
Tlatelolco
realistic
Athens of South America
27. 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
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Jose Marti
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The President
28. 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
Platt Amendment
Lazaro Cardenas
Raul Salinas de Gotari
29. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Jacobo Arbenz
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
silver
Balun Canan
30. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
Americanism
Jose Marti
Shoe
an independent country
31. 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
continent
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Benito Juarez
Andres Bello
32. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
Americanism
United Fruit Company
Gerardo Machado Morales
democratic Caesarism
33. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
realistic
Borinquineers
Emiliano Zapata
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
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
Balun Canan
Carlota
Hopscotch
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
35. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Americanism
Lazaro Cardenas
Latin American realism
Columbia
36. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Ruben Dario
Caribbean
silver
37. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
students
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Jose Santos Zelaya
Albizu Campos
38. 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
Lazaro Cardenas
Porfirio Diaz
Columbia
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
39. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
Jacobo Arbenz
Honduras
a commonwealth
Andres Bello
40. 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
Santa Anna
Raul Salinas de Gotari
realistic
illiterate (cant read or write)
41. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
Athens of South America
Porfirio Diaz
realistic
an independent country
42. 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
muralists
Morazan
realistic
43. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Jacobo Arbenz
Raul Salinas de Gotari
thirty-three (33)
Hopscotch
44. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
Panama's independence
Lazaro Cardenas
Honduras
Augusto Cesar Sandino
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.
Platt Amendment
William Walker
Borinquineers
Puerto Rico
46. 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
realistic
Somoza family
an independent country
Latin American realism
47. 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
Trujillo
Platt Amendment
Albizu Campos
Markos Commandante
48. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
muralists
Santa Anna
illiterate (cant read or write)
thirty-three (33)
49. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
Lazaro Cardenas
Andres Bello
The Mexican Revolution
Trujillo
50. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
illiterate (cant read or write)
Poetry
Gerardo Machado Morales
Explain how history is reflected in the literature