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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Spain's signature popular dishes
Ruben Dario
1917 Constitution
parella - tortilla
United Fruit Company
2. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
Lazaro Cardenas
Carlota
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
illiterate (cant read or write)
3. 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
realistic
an independent country
Albizu Campos
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
4. 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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5. 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.
Jose Marti
Markos Commandante
Timber
Augusto Sandino
6. America is not only...
Jacobo Arbenz
Caribbean
Americanism
the U.S.
7. 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
The President
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
8. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Somoza family
Albizu Campos
One Hundred Years of Solitude
parella - tortilla
9. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
Caribbean
choteo
Oscar Arias Sanchez
illiterate (cant read or write)
10. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
El Salvador
Honduras
Athens of South America
Jose Santos Zelaya
11. 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
the bogotazo
manufacturing
1999
Gran Colombia
12. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
choteo
One Hundred Years of Solitude
the guachafita
realistic
13. 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
Morazan
Costa Rica
Puerto Rico
Mexican Revolution
14. 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.
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Porfirio Diaz
Andres Bello
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
15. Cuba is in the ______ sea
Caribbean
Honduras
United Fruit Company
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
16. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
Poetry
Borinquineers
parella - tortilla
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
17. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
choteo
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Jacobo Arbenz
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
18. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
manufacturing
Ruben Dario
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Augusto Cesar Sandino
19. 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
Gran Colombia
Morazan
Timber
the U.S.
20. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
Jose Marti
modernism
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Tlatelolco
21. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Morazan
Columbia
Jacobo Arbenz
Panama's independence
22. Bogota
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
continent
realistic
Athens of South America
23. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
choteo
Andres Bello
Santa Anna
24. 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
Panama's independence
Platt Amendment
Borinquineers
Oscar Arias Sanchez
25. 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
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
The Mexican Revolution
Porfirio Diaz
Athens of South America
26. 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
Andres Bello
Latin American realism
1917 Constitution
Morazan
27. 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
thirty-three (33)
Ruben Dario
parella - tortilla
28. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
Carlota
Porfirio Diaz
students
Somoza family
29. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
United Fruit Company
30. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Ruben Dario
1999
a commonwealth
31. Latin America is not a...
Carlota
continent
an independent country
The Mexican Revolution
32. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Francisco Morazan
Lazaro Cardenas
Antonio Conselherio
manufacturing
33. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
choteo
the bogotazo
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
a commonwealth
34. At the next election the revolutionary triumph Jacobo Arbenz - who took office in 1951. The following year - his government passed the Agrarian Reform Law - which benefited hundreds of thousands of families.
William Walker
Andres Bello
Jacobo Arbenz
Somoza family
35. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Indians
Jacobo Arbenz
Albizu Campos
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
36. 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
The President
Francisco Morazan
Markos Commandante
37. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
Treaty of Ancon
muralists
Gran Colombia
The President
38. 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
The Mexican Revolution
Lazaro Cardenas
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Athens of South America
39. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
students
Mexican Revolution
The President
40. 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
Borinquineers
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Jose Marti
41. 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
Antonio Conselherio
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
1917 Constitution
continent
42. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
an independent country
William Walker
Emiliano Zapata
the U.S.
43. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
Indians
gaucho (cowboy)
Francisco Madero
Shoe
44. 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
a commonwealth
church
Puerto Rico
Tlatelolco
45. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
United Fruit Company
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
the bogotazo
gaucho (cowboy)
46. 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.
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Tlatelolco
Porfirio Diaz
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
47. 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 ..
Andres Bello
a commonwealth
students
Hopscotch
48. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
church
Latin American realism
Caribbean
Emiliano Zapata
49. 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
democratic Caesarism
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Porfirio Diaz
Mexican Revolution
50. 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
Markos Commandante
Platt Amendment
the U.S.
Somoza family