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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
manufacturing
Costa Rica
Francisco Madero
Poetry
2. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Lazaro Cardenas
Carlota
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
illiterate (cant read or write)
3. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Andres Bello
Hopscotch
4. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
Mexican Revolution
manufacturing
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Shoe
5. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
the U.S.
Puerto Rico
Augusto Cesar Sandino
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
6. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
The Mexican Revolution
parella - tortilla
United Fruit Company
El Salvador
7. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
students
muralists
gaucho (cowboy)
parella - tortilla
8. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
the bogotazo
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Santa Anna
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
Treaty of Ancon
Columbia
Athens of South America
10. 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
thirty-three (33)
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Mexican Revolution
11. 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
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Jacobo Arbenz
Porfirio Diaz
12. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Carlota
Ruben Dario
Raul Salinas de Gotari
13. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
Albizu Campos
the guachafita
thirty-three (33)
illiterate (cant read or write)
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 ..
Lazaro Cardenas
Puerto Rico
Francisco Madero
students
15. 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
Francisco Morazan
Jose Marti
illiterate (cant read or write)
16. ...
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Markos Commandante
Lazaro Cardenas
17. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Carlota
an independent country
Americanism
Hatuey
18. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
muralists
illiterate (cant read or write)
Hatuey
Panama's independence
19. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
choteo
Treaty of Ancon
Gran Colombia
realistic
20. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
1999
Jacobo Arbenz
Mexican Revolution
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
21. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
Mexican Revolution
Porfirio Diaz
Jorge Luis Borges
The President
22. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Francisco Morazan
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
23. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
a commonwealth
Carlota
Timber
Jose Marti
24. 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.
Albizu Campos
democratic Caesarism
Americanism
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
25. 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.
Morazan
Andres Bello
William Walker
Panama's independence
26. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Puerto Rico
Porfirio Diaz
Markos Commandante
Oscar Arias Sanchez
27. 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
Indians
an independent country
Jose Marti
the bogotazo
28. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
Oscar Arias Sanchez
manufacturing
Jacobo Arbenz
church
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.
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Timber
Markos Commandante
Hopscotch
30. 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
muralists
Americanism
illiterate (cant read or write)
31. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Puerto Rico
the bogotazo
church
Shoe
32. 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
Jose Marti
students
1917 Constitution
Jacobo Arbenz
33. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
realistic
muralists
Hopscotch
Jorge Luis Borges
34. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
William Walker
an independent country
Carlota
Costa Rica
35. 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.
Gerardo Machado Morales
Jorge Luis Borges
Francisco Madero
Jacobo Arbenz
36. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
Athens of South America
Trujillo
The President
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
37. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
Andres Bello
an independent country
illiterate (cant read or write)
William Walker
38. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Indians
The President
Poetry
1917 Constitution
39. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
Hatuey
the guachafita
Markos Commandante
Treaty of Ancon
40. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Balun Canan
continent
Albizu Campos
Tlatelolco
41. ...
Porfirio Diaz
silver
Trujillo
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
42. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Hatuey
Francisco Madero
Ruben Dario
43. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Jorge Luis Borges
the U.S.
El Salvador
Augusto Cesar Sandino
44. 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 guachafita
Columbia
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Latin American realism
45. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Augusto Sandino
Francisco Madero
Albizu Campos
46. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Emiliano Zapata
an independent country
Lazaro Cardenas
Somoza family
47. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
illiterate (cant read or write)
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Ruben Dario
48. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
United Fruit Company
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Jose Marti
49. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
El Salvador
Puerto Rico
Shoe
Lazaro Cardenas
50. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
Francisco Morazan
El Salvador
the U.S.
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian