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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. 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
Latin American realism
Markos Commandante
Carlota
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
2. 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.
realistic
Timber
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Jose Marti
3. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Jacobo Arbenz
manufacturing
Carlota
Francisco Madero
4. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
Antonio Conselherio
Carlota
Hatuey
Jorge Luis Borges
5. 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
Athens of South America
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Porfirio Diaz
Americanism
6. 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.
Latin American realism
Treaty of Ancon
silver
Benito Juarez
7. 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
Albizu Campos
Francisco Madero
muralists
8. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Augusto Sandino
Ruben Dario
Platt Amendment
9. 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.
Jorge Luis Borges
Raul Salinas de Gotari
manufacturing
Columbia
10. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
silver
United Fruit Company
Poetry
Trujillo
11. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Columbia
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
realistic
One Hundred Years of Solitude
12. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Costa Rica
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Andres Bello
Hopscotch
13. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
Hatuey
illiterate (cant read or write)
parella - tortilla
Ruben Dario
14. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
William Walker
1917 Constitution
manufacturing
a commonwealth
15. 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
Morazan
Augusto Sandino
Indians
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
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
Poetry
Markos Commandante
Treaty of Ancon
muralists
17. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Treaty of Ancon
Hatuey
Benito Juarez
18. 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
Gerardo Machado Morales
Trujillo
the bogotazo
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
19. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
modernism
parella - tortilla
Jorge Luis Borges
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
20. 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
Antonio Conselherio
Morazan
democratic Caesarism
Athens of South America
21. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Augusto Sandino
parella - tortilla
Americanism
Antonio Conselherio
22. 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
muralists
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
The President
Borinquineers
23. 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.
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
1999
democratic Caesarism
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
24. 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
Jacobo Arbenz
Tlatelolco
Jose Marti
Poetry
25. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Lazaro Cardenas
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Puerto Rico
26. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
Shoe
Latin American realism
Porfirio Diaz
choteo
27. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
the guachafita
Puerto Rico
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Jose Santos Zelaya
28. America is not only...
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Francisco Madero
the U.S.
Andres Bello
29. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
Treaty of Ancon
Oscar Arias Sanchez
William Walker
muralists
30. ...
Morazan
Benito Juarez
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Jose Marti
31. Spain's signature popular dishes
church
continent
parella - tortilla
Benito Juarez
32. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
El Salvador
Poetry
Emiliano Zapata
Benito Juarez
33. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Timber
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Tlatelolco
34. Latin America is not a...
parella - tortilla
continent
Ruben Dario
the bogotazo
35. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Francisco Morazan
the guachafita
Oscar Arias Sanchez
1999
36. 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
William Walker
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Hatuey
The Mexican Revolution
37. 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
Treaty of Ancon
Lazaro Cardenas
Ruben Dario
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
38. 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
a commonwealth
William Walker
the U.S.
39. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
Andres Bello
Costa Rica
Porfirio Diaz
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
40. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Puerto Rico
Ruben Dario
the guachafita
William Walker
41. 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.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Jacobo Arbenz
42. 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 U.S.
Santa Anna
Ruben Dario
Carlota
43. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
United Fruit Company
democratic Caesarism
continent
Costa Rica
44. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
choteo
Antonio Conselherio
the bogotazo
45. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
realistic
Puerto Rico
United Fruit Company
Jorge Luis Borges
46. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
Puerto Rico
Hopscotch
Trujillo
the guachafita
47. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
Trujillo
Latin American realism
Borinquineers
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
48. 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
the bogotazo
Augusto Cesar Sandino
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Borinquineers
49. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
Markos Commandante
a commonwealth
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
manufacturing
50. 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.
Jorge Luis Borges
Andres Bello
Albizu Campos
Benito Juarez