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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Puerto Rico
Andres Bello
2. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
realistic
manufacturing
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
3. 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
the guachafita
Santa Anna
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Porfirio Diaz
4. 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
Somoza family
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Honduras
5. 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
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Jose Marti
Latin American realism
The Mexican Revolution
6. 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.
Santa Anna
William Walker
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Panama's independence
7. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
Porfirio Diaz
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
church
Platt Amendment
8. 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
choteo
Albizu Campos
United Fruit Company
Ruben Dario
9. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
Andres Bello
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
muralists
Markos Commandante
10. ...
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Poetry
choteo
11. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
Americanism
Francisco Madero
Borinquineers
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
12. 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
manufacturing
Gran Colombia
illiterate (cant read or write)
Augusto Cesar Sandino
13. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Ruben Dario
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Puerto Rico
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
14. 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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15. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
Gerardo Machado Morales
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
realistic
1999
16. 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
Poetry
Borinquineers
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
1999
17. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Tlatelolco
Porfirio Diaz
manufacturing
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
18. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
a commonwealth
silver
an independent country
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
19. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Poetry
Platt Amendment
El Salvador
Jose Marti
20. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Treaty of Ancon
United Fruit Company
21. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
Poetry
Emiliano Zapata
modernism
1917 Constitution
22. 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
parella - tortilla
Jose Santos Zelaya
Balun Canan
Trujillo
23. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Balun Canan
Costa Rica
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Shoe
24. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
Raul Salinas de Gotari
manufacturing
democratic Caesarism
silver
25. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
silver
Poetry
Columbia
choteo
26. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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27. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
Markos Commandante
choteo
Panama's independence
United Fruit Company
28. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Jose Marti
Markos Commandante
Antonio Conselherio
Indians
29. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
Lazaro Cardenas
Hatuey
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
30. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Jorge Luis Borges
Morazan
parella - tortilla
the bogotazo
31. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
Timber
thirty-three (33)
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Francisco Madero
32. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
illiterate (cant read or write)
Columbia
the U.S.
an independent country
33. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
students
Mexican Revolution
1917 Constitution
Treaty of Ancon
34. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Hopscotch
Costa Rica
thirty-three (33)
Ruben Dario
35. 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
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Manuel Antonio Noriega
36. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
United Fruit Company
the guachafita
Gerardo Machado Morales
a commonwealth
37. 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
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1917 Constitution
Carlota
Lazaro Cardenas
38. 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.
thirty-three (33)
Timber
a commonwealth
the U.S.
39. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Mexican Revolution
choteo
the bogotazo
Carlota
40. 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
the guachafita
Emiliano Zapata
Somoza family
41. 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
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
an independent country
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Tlatelolco
42. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
Americanism
choteo
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
43. 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
1999
Markos Commandante
students
manufacturing
44. 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
choteo
Augusto Sandino
Porfirio Diaz
Platt Amendment
45. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
an independent country
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
a commonwealth
46. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
1999
Emiliano Zapata
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
church
47. 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
Lazaro Cardenas
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Platt Amendment
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
48. Cuba is in the ______ sea
manufacturing
One Hundred Years of Solitude
silver
Caribbean
49. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Ruben Dario
Costa Rica
thirty-three (33)
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
50. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
Poetry
Gran Colombia
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Costa Rica