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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Indians
1999
manufacturing
Hatuey
2. 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.
Shoe
Costa Rica
manufacturing
thirty-three (33)
3. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
thirty-three (33)
Caribbean
Andres Bello
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
4. 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.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Raul Salinas de Gotari
realistic
muralists
5. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
The President
Caribbean
Antonio Conselherio
Augusto Cesar Sandino
6. 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 ..
Americanism
Gran Colombia
Jose Santos Zelaya
students
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
manufacturing
continent
Jorge Luis Borges
1917 Constitution
8. 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
Augusto Sandino
Puerto Rico
silver
Porfirio Diaz
9. 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
Caribbean
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
1999
10. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Hopscotch
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Puerto Rico
Platt Amendment
11. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Jose Marti
Costa Rica
Athens of South America
Shoe
12. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Carlota
Caribbean
Somoza family
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
13. ...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Mexican Revolution
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
1999
14. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Somoza family
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Americanism
15. Latin America is not a...
continent
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
thirty-three (33)
16. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
Jacobo Arbenz
Emiliano Zapata
Francisco Madero
Costa Rica
17. 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
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Augusto Cesar Sandino
modernism
18. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Borinquineers
Puerto Rico
Jacobo Arbenz
Columbia
19. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Timber
Ruben Dario
Jose Marti
Oscar Arias Sanchez
20. America is not only...
realistic
the U.S.
Francisco Morazan
Caribbean
21. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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22. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Jose Santos Zelaya
Mexican Revolution
Honduras
23. Bogota
choteo
a commonwealth
Morazan
Athens of South America
24. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
Gerardo Machado Morales
modernism
Porfirio Diaz
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
25. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
students
Ruben Dario
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
26. 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
continent
Columbia
Somoza family
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
27. 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
Tlatelolco
realistic
Puerto Rico
modernism
28. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
Platt Amendment
Trujillo
One Hundred Years of Solitude
silver
29. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
El Salvador
Antonio Conselherio
Athens of South America
Panama's independence
30. 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
United Fruit Company
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
church
Platt Amendment
31. 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
a commonwealth
Gran Colombia
The President
Emiliano Zapata
32. 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.
Athens of South America
William Walker
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Benito Juarez
33. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
Americanism
Caribbean
Jose Marti
Albizu Campos
34. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
continent
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Borinquineers
Antonio Conselherio
35. 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
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Hatuey
Augusto Cesar Sandino
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
36. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
modernism
United Fruit Company
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
The Mexican Revolution
37. 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.
1999
democratic Caesarism
the U.S.
Carlota
38. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Jorge Luis Borges
Lazaro Cardenas
Porfirio Diaz
39. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
Ruben Dario
a commonwealth
1999
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
40. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Athens of South America
Tlatelolco
Benito Juarez
Puerto Rico
41. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Treaty of Ancon
realistic
silver
42. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Jorge Luis Borges
Poetry
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Puerto Rico
43. 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
parella - tortilla
Latin American realism
Augusto Cesar Sandino
44. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
Porfirio Diaz
realistic
Oscar Arias Sanchez
1999
45. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
an independent country
Lazaro Cardenas
democratic Caesarism
Jorge Luis Borges
46. 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
realistic
Indians
Morazan
thirty-three (33)
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
Indians
Athens of South America
Mexican Revolution
Markos Commandante
48. 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.
Lazaro Cardenas
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Jorge Luis Borges
William Walker
49. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
The President
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Benito Juarez
Francisco Madero
50. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
El Salvador
Timber
Latin American realism
Hopscotch