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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Indians
the U.S.
Jorge Luis Borges
2. 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
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
3. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
Latin American realism
Panama's independence
The President
Jose Marti
4. 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.
choteo
Timber
Athens of South America
Treaty of Ancon
5. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
Benito Juarez
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Tlatelolco
The Mexican Revolution
6. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Jorge Luis Borges
Indians
Jose Marti
thirty-three (33)
7. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Markos Commandante
an independent country
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Carlota
8. 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
Ruben Dario
Somoza family
Costa Rica
manufacturing
9. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Hopscotch
Markos Commandante
illiterate (cant read or write)
Somoza family
10. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
the guachafita
Andres Bello
11. 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
Ruben Dario
Lazaro Cardenas
illiterate (cant read or write)
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
12. 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
1999
the bogotazo
Hatuey
the U.S.
13. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
Hatuey
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
silver
14. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Panama's independence
Shoe
Ruben Dario
muralists
15. Cuba is in the ______ sea
Shoe
a commonwealth
Balun Canan
Caribbean
16. 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
church
El Salvador
Platt Amendment
17. 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
Morazan
Markos Commandante
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
18. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
realistic
Puerto Rico
Costa Rica
Hopscotch
19. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
silver
1917 Constitution
the guachafita
Honduras
20. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
Lazaro Cardenas
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Porfirio Diaz
21. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
gaucho (cowboy)
thirty-three (33)
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
illiterate (cant read or write)
22. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
realistic
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Antonio Conselherio
23. 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
Gran Colombia
Lazaro Cardenas
1917 Constitution
Shoe
24. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
Jorge Luis Borges
1999
church
silver
25. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
Honduras
manufacturing
the bogotazo
illiterate (cant read or write)
26. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
1999
United Fruit Company
illiterate (cant read or write)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
27. 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.
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Lazaro Cardenas
William Walker
Emiliano Zapata
28. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
El Salvador
modernism
democratic Caesarism
parella - tortilla
29. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
parella - tortilla
Costa Rica
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
30. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Panama's independence
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Mexican Revolution
31. had three stages of the Mexican Revolution: the wartime period (1910-1920) - the organizing stage (1920-1940) and the conservative stage (1940-2000). It was an armed struggle that started in 1910 - with an uprising led by Francisco Madero against for
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
muralists
Mexican Revolution
Gerardo Machado Morales
32. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Panama's independence
Caribbean
Jose Marti
33. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
Trujillo
Ruben Dario
1917 Constitution
Puerto Rico
34. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Puerto Rico
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Latin American realism
manufacturing
35. 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
Treaty of Ancon
parella - tortilla
Latin American realism
Puerto Rico
36. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Tlatelolco
Francisco Madero
Emiliano Zapata
37. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Andres Bello
the bogotazo
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Francisco Madero
38. ...
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Morazan
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Shoe
39. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Columbia
illiterate (cant read or write)
Benito Juarez
40. Although geographically belongs to Central Panama - not always associated this country with the region politically - perhaps because for centuries has been linked to South America. Since Colombia became independent from Spain in 1821 - Panama was a
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41. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Puerto Rico
Andres Bello
Honduras
choteo
42. 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.
Trujillo
Shoe
Lazaro Cardenas
a commonwealth
43. 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
Jose Marti
Francisco Madero
Santa Anna
Andres Bello
44. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
Augusto Sandino
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Treaty of Ancon
Ruben Dario
45. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
The President
Ruben Dario
Benito Juarez
illiterate (cant read or write)
46. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
Honduras
church
Tlatelolco
Columbia
47. 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.
Ruben Dario
Oscar Arias Sanchez
democratic Caesarism
Jose Marti
48. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Hopscotch
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
49. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
Honduras
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
The President
an independent country
50. 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
Carlota
Latin American realism
students
Porfirio Diaz