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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. 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
The President
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Costa Rica
2. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
students
illiterate (cant read or write)
Somoza family
United Fruit Company
3. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Jacobo Arbenz
Balun Canan
Latin American realism
modernism
4. 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
Costa Rica
modernism
choteo
5. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
realistic
manufacturing
Porfirio Diaz
Francisco Morazan
6. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Porfirio Diaz
Jose Marti
7. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
Athens of South America
Platt Amendment
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Treaty of Ancon
8. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Timber
Trujillo
thirty-three (33)
9. 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
students
Hopscotch
Jose Santos Zelaya
10. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Poetry
1917 Constitution
continent
11. 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
Platt Amendment
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
an independent country
12. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Ruben Dario
El Salvador
Mexican Revolution
modernism
13. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Costa Rica
Lazaro Cardenas
Indians
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
14. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Hatuey
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
realistic
Lazaro Cardenas
15. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
Indians
Somoza family
Americanism
Antonio Conselherio
16. 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
democratic Caesarism
Americanism
Athens of South America
17. ...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Hatuey
continent
Antonio Conselherio
18. 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
1917 Constitution
Markos Commandante
Indians
Francisco Morazan
19. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Puerto Rico
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Caribbean
20. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Costa Rica
Benito Juarez
Panama's independence
Athens of South America
21. 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
El Salvador
Mexican Revolution
1917 Constitution
the U.S.
22. 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
thirty-three (33)
modernism
The President
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
23. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
muralists
Borinquineers
an independent country
Gran Colombia
24. 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.
The President
manufacturing
Benito Juarez
Borinquineers
25. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
United Fruit Company
students
silver
26. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
Borinquineers
The President
Andres Bello
Mexican Revolution
27. 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
Augusto Sandino
Puerto Rico
Caribbean
a commonwealth
28. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
Balun Canan
Hatuey
the guachafita
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
29. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Jose Santos Zelaya
United Fruit Company
Augusto Sandino
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
30. Latin America is not a...
continent
United Fruit Company
Hopscotch
Hatuey
31. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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32. 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
Markos Commandante
Raul Salinas de Gotari
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Emiliano Zapata
33. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
Somoza family
muralists
the guachafita
Latin American realism
34. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
an independent country
gaucho (cowboy)
Carlota
Benito Juarez
35. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
Emiliano Zapata
Ruben Dario
Honduras
Balun Canan
36. 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
United Fruit Company
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Santa Anna
Morazan
37. Cuba is in the ______ sea
Andres Bello
Carlota
Santa Anna
Caribbean
38. 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
Santa Anna
Balun Canan
parella - tortilla
Albizu Campos
39. 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
parella - tortilla
Treaty of Ancon
Francisco Madero
the bogotazo
40. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
Porfirio Diaz
silver
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Jacobo Arbenz
41. 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
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Athens of South America
Platt Amendment
42. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Antonio Conselherio
choteo
Jose Marti
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
43. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
Manuel Antonio Noriega
The President
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Francisco Madero
44. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
United Fruit Company
a commonwealth
Jose Marti
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
45. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
Puerto Rico
Jacobo Arbenz
Lazaro Cardenas
Markos Commandante
46. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Timber
Puerto Rico
The President
Borinquineers
47. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
Hopscotch
Puerto Rico
the U.S.
choteo
48. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Gerardo Machado Morales
Caribbean
muralists
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
49. 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
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Albizu Campos
Porfirio Diaz
Jacobo Arbenz
50. Spain's signature popular dishes
parella - tortilla
Costa Rica
gaucho (cowboy)
Francisco Madero