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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
realistic
Francisco Madero
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Trujillo
2. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Indians
a commonwealth
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
thirty-three (33)
3. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
realistic
Carlota
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.
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Indians
Americanism
Raul Salinas de Gotari
5. 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.
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Shoe
6. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Poetry
Porfirio Diaz
Jose Marti
Francisco Morazan
7. 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.
Panama's independence
Columbia
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Benito Juarez
8. 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
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Ruben Dario
Honduras
Lazaro Cardenas
9. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Hatuey
church
10. 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
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
parella - tortilla
Tlatelolco
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
11. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Hopscotch
Benito Juarez
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
12. 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.
Timber
Poetry
One Hundred Years of Solitude
modernism
13. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
illiterate (cant read or write)
Raul Salinas de Gotari
thirty-three (33)
El Salvador
14. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Ruben Dario
church
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Lazaro Cardenas
15. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Costa Rica
Raul Salinas de Gotari
modernism
Indians
16. America is not only...
Shoe
Emiliano Zapata
Porfirio Diaz
the U.S.
17. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
Jacobo Arbenz
continent
Lazaro Cardenas
Treaty of Ancon
18. 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
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Tlatelolco
thirty-three (33)
19. 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
Jose Marti
Panama's independence
Emiliano Zapata
modernism
20. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
democratic Caesarism
Tlatelolco
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
the guachafita
21. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
1999
Jose Marti
Porfirio Diaz
Manuel Antonio Noriega
22. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
the U.S.
Jose Santos Zelaya
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
23. Bogota
Honduras
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
realistic
Athens of South America
24. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Jose Marti
Puerto Rico
Lazaro Cardenas
thirty-three (33)
25. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
illiterate (cant read or write)
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
modernism
United Fruit Company
26. 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
Balun Canan
Porfirio Diaz
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
gaucho (cowboy)
27. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Gerardo Machado Morales
Jacobo Arbenz
Emiliano Zapata
Augusto Sandino
28. 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
1999
Jose Marti
El Salvador
29. 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
Porfirio Diaz
Emiliano Zapata
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Hopscotch
30. 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
Somoza family
illiterate (cant read or write)
Costa Rica
31. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Caribbean
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
One Hundred Years of Solitude
a commonwealth
32. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
The Mexican Revolution
Jacobo Arbenz
Lazaro Cardenas
silver
33. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Indians
Jorge Luis Borges
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
34. ...
Puerto Rico
Costa Rica
Ruben Dario
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
35. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
Hatuey
1999
Poetry
Lazaro Cardenas
36. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
Honduras
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Antonio Conselherio
silver
37. 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
silver
El Salvador
Trujillo
Porfirio Diaz
38. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
a commonwealth
United Fruit Company
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Caribbean
39. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
illiterate (cant read or write)
Balun Canan
1999
Panama's independence
40. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Indians
continent
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Andres Bello
41. 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
Shoe
Somoza family
Jose Marti
Trujillo
42. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
Ruben Dario
Tlatelolco
Carlota
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
43. Cuba is in the ______ sea
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
democratic Caesarism
Hopscotch
Caribbean
44. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
Ruben Dario
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
El Salvador
The President
45. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
Jose Marti
Jacobo Arbenz
The Mexican Revolution
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
46. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Emiliano Zapata
Balun Canan
Francisco Morazan
Gerardo Machado Morales
47. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Poetry
Antonio Conselherio
democratic Caesarism
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
48. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
The President
Lazaro Cardenas
Treaty of Ancon
49. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Lazaro Cardenas
Jacobo Arbenz
Poetry
Gran Colombia
50. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
thirty-three (33)
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
choteo
Augusto Sandino