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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. Cuba is in the ______ sea
the guachafita
Honduras
Caribbean
choteo
2. 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
Lazaro Cardenas
Costa Rica
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Santa Anna
3. 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 ..
Jacobo Arbenz
the bogotazo
students
Poetry
4. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Gerardo Machado Morales
students
5. 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
Gran Colombia
Jacobo Arbenz
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Porfirio Diaz
6. Latin America is not a...
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
the bogotazo
continent
Indians
7. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Platt Amendment
United Fruit Company
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Ruben Dario
8. 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
Lazaro Cardenas
Latin American realism
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
The Mexican Revolution
9. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
Antonio Conselherio
choteo
The President
Gerardo Machado Morales
10. 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.
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Andres Bello
William Walker
Jose Santos Zelaya
11. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
democratic Caesarism
Puerto Rico
Andres Bello
Hatuey
12. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
realistic
William Walker
Borinquineers
Platt Amendment
13. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Gerardo Machado Morales
Morazan
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Jose Santos Zelaya
14. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
a commonwealth
Columbia
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Ruben Dario
15. 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.
the U.S.
Gran Colombia
democratic Caesarism
Puerto Rico
16. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
illiterate (cant read or write)
Lazaro Cardenas
Markos Commandante
Mexican Revolution
17. 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.
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Andres Bello
Jacobo Arbenz
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
18. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Poetry
Puerto Rico
Borinquineers
Gerardo Machado Morales
19. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Americanism
modernism
Carlota
20. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
21. 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
Columbia
Costa Rica
Tlatelolco
Oscar Arias Sanchez
22. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Costa Rica
Trujillo
Platt Amendment
Albizu Campos
23. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Lazaro Cardenas
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Puerto Rico
One Hundred Years of Solitude
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
Puerto Rico
Platt Amendment
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
The Mexican Revolution
25. 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
Trujillo
Gerardo Machado Morales
Andres Bello
muralists
26. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
The Mexican Revolution
muralists
Honduras
Caribbean
27. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
silver
gaucho (cowboy)
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
The Mexican Revolution
28. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Balun Canan
Columbia
Jacobo Arbenz
continent
29. 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
gaucho (cowboy)
illiterate (cant read or write)
Gran Colombia
30. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
an independent country
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
democratic Caesarism
a commonwealth
31. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Caribbean
Indians
Jorge Luis Borges
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
32. 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
modernism
Puerto Rico
Albizu Campos
Francisco Madero
33. 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
Trujillo
Emiliano Zapata
Jose Santos Zelaya
34. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Mexican Revolution
One Hundred Years of Solitude
gaucho (cowboy)
Jacobo Arbenz
35. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
Honduras
Tlatelolco
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
36. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Panama's independence
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
1917 Constitution
Trujillo
37. Spain's signature popular dishes
Augusto Cesar Sandino
parella - tortilla
Santa Anna
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
38. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
Jose Marti
continent
thirty-three (33)
Poetry
39. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
Carlota
Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution
One Hundred Years of Solitude
40. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
Ruben Dario
Honduras
Americanism
Oscar Arias Sanchez
41. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Platt Amendment
Puerto Rico
42. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
Lazaro Cardenas
Andres Bello
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
parella - tortilla
43. 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
Lazaro Cardenas
a commonwealth
continent
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
44. 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
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Porfirio Diaz
illiterate (cant read or write)
1917 Constitution
45. 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.
Puerto Rico
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Mexican Revolution
Jose Marti
46. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
Lazaro Cardenas
students
church
Augusto Cesar Sandino
47. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
the bogotazo
muralists
Francisco Madero
Gran Colombia
48. 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
Morazan
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Latin American realism
William Walker
49. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Antonio Conselherio
Augusto Sandino
illiterate (cant read or write)
50. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
parella - tortilla
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
democratic Caesarism
manufacturing