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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Benito Juarez
Andres Bello
2. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Hopscotch
The Mexican Revolution
Gerardo Machado Morales
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
3. ...
Athens of South America
Ruben Dario
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Jorge Luis Borges
4. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
democratic Caesarism
choteo
Jose Marti
El Salvador
5. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
democratic Caesarism
Oscar Arias Sanchez
6. 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
Morazan
church
Somoza family
Lazaro Cardenas
7. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Jose Marti
1917 Constitution
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
choteo
8. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Jose Santos Zelaya
silver
Treaty of Ancon
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
9. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Costa Rica
an independent country
gaucho (cowboy)
10. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
church
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
thirty-three (33)
11. 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.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Andres Bello
Antonio Conselherio
United Fruit Company
12. Cuba is in the ______ sea
Lazaro Cardenas
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Columbia
Caribbean
13. 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
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
the guachafita
Somoza family
14. 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 ..
Augusto Cesar Sandino
students
Francisco Morazan
Balun Canan
15. 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
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Gran Colombia
Jose Marti
Columbia
16. 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
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
17. 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.
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Andres Bello
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
manufacturing
18. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Treaty of Ancon
Francisco Morazan
gaucho (cowboy)
19. 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
1999
Jose Santos Zelaya
Morazan
Augusto Sandino
20. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
Augusto Cesar Sandino
manufacturing
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Raul Salinas de Gotari
21. America is not only...
the guachafita
the U.S.
The President
Manuel Antonio Noriega
22. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
El Salvador
1999
Lazaro Cardenas
the guachafita
23. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
silver
Tlatelolco
Treaty of Ancon
the U.S.
24. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Somoza family
Francisco Madero
25. 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
Jose Marti
Tlatelolco
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Augusto Cesar Sandino
26. 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
Athens of South America
1917 Constitution
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
silver
27. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Francisco Morazan
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Athens of South America
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
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
The Mexican Revolution
Santa Anna
29. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
manufacturing
Latin American realism
Antonio Conselherio
an independent country
30. 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.
Jacobo Arbenz
Francisco Madero
Puerto Rico
Indians
31. 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
Platt Amendment
Shoe
Hopscotch
Jorge Luis Borges
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
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Albizu Campos
Americanism
33. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
thirty-three (33)
Hatuey
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Jacobo Arbenz
34. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
Porfirio Diaz
Trujillo
Augusto Cesar Sandino
silver
35. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Jose Marti
Jorge Luis Borges
realistic
United Fruit Company
36. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
1917 Constitution
students
Ruben Dario
Jacobo Arbenz
37. 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
Jose Santos Zelaya
Columbia
thirty-three (33)
38. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
the guachafita
illiterate (cant read or write)
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Poetry
39. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Panama's independence
Andres Bello
Indians
Emiliano Zapata
40. Latin America is not a...
Shoe
Treaty of Ancon
Markos Commandante
continent
41. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
Trujillo
Platt Amendment
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Jose Marti
42. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
illiterate (cant read or write)
Francisco Madero
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Americanism
43. 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.
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Porfirio Diaz
William Walker
Benito Juarez
44. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
realistic
Ruben Dario
Morazan
the guachafita
45. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
Porfirio Diaz
Ruben Dario
Honduras
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
46. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
thirty-three (33)
illiterate (cant read or write)
47. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
choteo
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Somoza family
Lazaro Cardenas
48. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
Jose Marti
Andres Bello
continent
Tlatelolco
49. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
Porfirio Diaz
realistic
muralists
Honduras
50. 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 characteristics of violence in Columbia
1999
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Panama's independence