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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. America is not only...
democratic Caesarism
Jose Marti
the U.S.
silver
2. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Timber
Emiliano Zapata
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
3. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Mexican Revolution
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Hopscotch
4. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
Gran Colombia
choteo
modernism
Andres Bello
5. Bogota
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Athens of South America
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Manuel Antonio Noriega
6. 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
Panama's independence
Andres Bello
church
7. 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
Puerto Rico
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Jose Marti
Porfirio Diaz
8. 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
Mexican Revolution
the bogotazo
modernism
Raul Salinas de Gotari
9. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Mexican Revolution
Hopscotch
Caribbean
Francisco Morazan
10. 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.
The President
Porfirio Diaz
Andres Bello
Jacobo Arbenz
11. 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
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
the bogotazo
Jose Marti
12. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Carlota
continent
Francisco Morazan
Athens of South America
13. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
The Mexican Revolution
Mexican Revolution
Treaty of Ancon
Puerto Rico
14. 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.
Somoza family
Jacobo Arbenz
United Fruit Company
Hopscotch
15. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Puerto Rico
Jose Santos Zelaya
Albizu Campos
Costa Rica
16. 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
United Fruit Company
illiterate (cant read or write)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Latin American realism
17. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Porfirio Diaz
One Hundred Years of Solitude
United Fruit Company
Hopscotch
18. 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
Somoza family
silver
Puerto Rico
United Fruit Company
19. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
the U.S.
1999
church
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
20. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Albizu Campos
William Walker
Puerto Rico
Americanism
21. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Indians
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Borinquineers
22. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
Ruben Dario
Treaty of Ancon
students
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
23. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Augusto Sandino
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Timber
Lazaro Cardenas
24. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
modernism
manufacturing
an independent country
Trujillo
25. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Indians
The Mexican Revolution
Honduras
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
26. 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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27. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
Timber
choteo
realistic
Morazan
28. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
Puerto Rico
Porfirio Diaz
El Salvador
Puerto Rico
29. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
church
Lazaro Cardenas
Ruben Dario
30. 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
Mexican Revolution
Lazaro Cardenas
church
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
31. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
Lazaro Cardenas
Antonio Conselherio
students
gaucho (cowboy)
32. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
Trujillo
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
33. 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
Hatuey
church
Santa Anna
modernism
34. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Indians
Augusto Cesar Sandino
35. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
choteo
Jose Marti
Columbia
United Fruit Company
36. 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
Jorge Luis Borges
The President
Columbia
37. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Porfirio Diaz
parella - tortilla
Balun Canan
Costa Rica
38. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Caribbean
Antonio Conselherio
Ruben Dario
1917 Constitution
39. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
Somoza family
Carlota
Latin American realism
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
Hatuey
Ruben Dario
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
41. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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42. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Poetry
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Americanism
43. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
Panama's independence
Treaty of Ancon
muralists
Puerto Rico
44. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
realistic
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Puerto Rico
William Walker
45. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Jacobo Arbenz
a commonwealth
Ruben Dario
Gerardo Machado Morales
46. 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
Lazaro Cardenas
Albizu Campos
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Trujillo
47. 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
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Morazan
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
William Walker
48. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
a commonwealth
Francisco Morazan
the guachafita
gaucho (cowboy)
49. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
Francisco Madero
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Jose Santos Zelaya
realistic
50. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
continent
Jose Santos Zelaya
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
The Mexican Revolution