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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
1999
Honduras
Jose Marti
Hatuey
2. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
choteo
Andres Bello
Americanism
Timber
3. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Morazan
William Walker
Jacobo Arbenz
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
4. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Augusto Sandino
Lazaro Cardenas
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
5. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Jorge Luis Borges
Puerto Rico
Benito Juarez
Panama's independence
6. 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
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Caribbean
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Columbia
7. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
The Mexican Revolution
Indians
gaucho (cowboy)
Jose Marti
8. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Jose Marti
Carlota
Americanism
United Fruit Company
9. 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
Augusto Sandino
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Andres Bello
thirty-three (33)
10. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
Ruben Dario
Balun Canan
The Mexican Revolution
Hopscotch
11. 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
Timber
modernism
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Latin American realism
12. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
Americanism
Raul Salinas de Gotari
an independent country
Tlatelolco
13. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
Jacobo Arbenz
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Honduras
an independent country
14. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
the bogotazo
Tlatelolco
Hatuey
Andres Bello
15. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
El Salvador
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
an independent country
16. 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
Oscar Arias Sanchez
an independent country
Andres Bello
Somoza family
17. 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
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
the bogotazo
the U.S.
Costa Rica
18. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Gran Colombia
Ruben Dario
Raul Salinas de Gotari
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
19. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
One Hundred Years of Solitude
thirty-three (33)
1917 Constitution
Caribbean
20. 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.
Platt Amendment
Benito Juarez
Puerto Rico
Porfirio Diaz
21. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Tlatelolco
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Raul Salinas de Gotari
22. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Puerto Rico
an independent country
illiterate (cant read or write)
Andres Bello
23. 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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24. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Treaty of Ancon
continent
Antonio Conselherio
an independent country
25. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Ruben Dario
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Tlatelolco
One Hundred Years of Solitude
26. 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 imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Albizu Campos
Jose Marti
Panama's independence
27. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Timber
Francisco Morazan
Ruben Dario
28. Cuba is in the ______ sea
Caribbean
Jacobo Arbenz
1999
Athens of South America
29. Latin America is not a...
continent
Jacobo Arbenz
Jose Marti
Mexican Revolution
30. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
a commonwealth
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Lazaro Cardenas
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
31. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Indians
Mexican Revolution
Oscar Arias Sanchez
The President
32. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Markos Commandante
Gran Colombia
Porfirio Diaz
33. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
students
Jose Marti
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Balun Canan
34. America is not only...
the U.S.
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Gerardo Machado Morales
35. 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
Mexican Revolution
Jose Santos Zelaya
El Salvador
Honduras
36. 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
Latin American realism
Antonio Conselherio
Indians
37. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
United Fruit Company
muralists
students
an independent country
38. 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
a commonwealth
Jose Marti
Oscar Arias Sanchez
39. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Jacobo Arbenz
Lazaro Cardenas
Jose Marti
40. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Hopscotch
Poetry
Columbia
realistic
41. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Manuel Antonio Noriega
The Mexican Revolution
Costa Rica
thirty-three (33)
42. 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
church
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Trujillo
43. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
Athens of South America
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
modernism
Emiliano Zapata
44. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
the guachafita
Balun Canan
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
United Fruit Company
45. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Hopscotch
an independent country
Markos Commandante
Jose Marti
46. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
Francisco Madero
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Carlota
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
47. 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
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Lazaro Cardenas
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Ruben Dario
48. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Shoe
Honduras
Borinquineers
49. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Caribbean
the U.S.
Gerardo Machado Morales
Costa Rica
50. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Shoe
Costa Rica
Morazan
an independent country