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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
Americanism
The Mexican Revolution
realistic
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
2. 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
Albizu Campos
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
One Hundred Years of Solitude
modernism
3. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
Jacobo Arbenz
Carlota
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
4. 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.
thirty-three (33)
Shoe
Jose Santos Zelaya
One Hundred Years of Solitude
5. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
the bogotazo
manufacturing
Borinquineers
Tlatelolco
6. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
Carlota
church
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Balun Canan
7. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
democratic Caesarism
Timber
church
realistic
8. 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.
Treaty of Ancon
Borinquineers
Andres Bello
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
9. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Jose Santos Zelaya
Augusto Sandino
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Augusto Cesar Sandino
10. 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
Santa Anna
1999
Lazaro Cardenas
1917 Constitution
11. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Francisco Madero
Athens of South America
Gerardo Machado Morales
parella - tortilla
12. 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
Augusto Cesar Sandino
students
Manuel Antonio Noriega
13. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Timber
illiterate (cant read or write)
Somoza family
14. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
parella - tortilla
Gran Colombia
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Manuel Antonio Noriega
15. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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16. 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
Raul Salinas de Gotari
the bogotazo
realistic
Markos Commandante
17. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Panama's independence
Poetry
Jose Santos Zelaya
The President
18. 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.
Benito Juarez
Borinquineers
Carlota
Indians
19. ...
Somoza family
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
20. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
Treaty of Ancon
Andres Bello
parella - tortilla
Ruben Dario
21. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Ruben Dario
Benito Juarez
22. 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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23. 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
Porfirio Diaz
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Jose Marti
Poetry
24. 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
Benito Juarez
Somoza family
realistic
Andres Bello
25. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Borinquineers
Oscar Arias Sanchez
a commonwealth
26. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Treaty of Ancon
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Balun Canan
Carlota
27. 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.
Francisco Madero
Balun Canan
Hopscotch
Timber
28. Latin America is not a...
Hopscotch
continent
Benito Juarez
Lazaro Cardenas
29. 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
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Antonio Conselherio
30. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Carlota
an independent country
Hopscotch
One Hundred Years of Solitude
31. 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.
Puerto Rico
democratic Caesarism
Latin American realism
Santa Anna
32. 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
modernism
The Mexican Revolution
students
33. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Panama's independence
Gran Colombia
34. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
The Mexican Revolution
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Carlota
Treaty of Ancon
35. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Antonio Conselherio
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Somoza family
Indians
36. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Jacobo Arbenz
Puerto Rico
choteo
Tlatelolco
37. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Ruben Dario
Costa Rica
realistic
Gran Colombia
38. 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
Gran Colombia
Americanism
Porfirio Diaz
Trujillo
39. 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
Francisco Morazan
El Salvador
Augusto Sandino
Indians
40. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Columbia
Jose Marti
thirty-three (33)
41. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
an independent country
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
thirty-three (33)
Americanism
42. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
choteo
continent
Augusto Sandino
church
43. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1999
Emiliano Zapata
democratic Caesarism
One Hundred Years of Solitude
44. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
Indians
an independent country
the bogotazo
Porfirio Diaz
45. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
an independent country
democratic Caesarism
Francisco Madero
Balun Canan
46. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
Borinquineers
silver
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Santa Anna
47. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
Borinquineers
Balun Canan
Somoza family
El Salvador
48. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
democratic Caesarism
an independent country
One Hundred Years of Solitude
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
49. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Puerto Rico
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Platt Amendment
50. 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 bogotazo
Treaty of Ancon
The President
gaucho (cowboy)