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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Jose Santos Zelaya
Francisco Madero
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
2. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
Americanism
Columbia
The Mexican Revolution
Somoza family
3. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
Andres Bello
Borinquineers
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
a commonwealth
4. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Hopscotch
gaucho (cowboy)
Antonio Conselherio
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
5. 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
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Americanism
Trujillo
Poetry
6. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
Francisco Madero
Hopscotch
muralists
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
7. 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
students
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
The Mexican Revolution
Somoza family
8. 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
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Lazaro Cardenas
Morazan
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
9. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
manufacturing
church
Caribbean
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
10. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Francisco Morazan
Antonio Conselherio
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Balun Canan
11. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
Manuel Antonio Noriega
El Salvador
Ruben Dario
Costa Rica
12. 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
Panama's independence
Jose Marti
Americanism
Santa Anna
13. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Porfirio Diaz
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
the U.S.
14. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Francisco Morazan
Somoza family
Emiliano Zapata
the bogotazo
15. 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
Ruben Dario
Gran Colombia
Albizu Campos
Platt Amendment
16. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
Porfirio Diaz
1999
The President
Benito Juarez
17. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
an independent country
Raul Salinas de Gotari
modernism
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
18. 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
Treaty of Ancon
the bogotazo
an independent country
United Fruit Company
19. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Puerto Rico
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Jacobo Arbenz
20. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
modernism
Porfirio Diaz
21. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
the guachafita
Emiliano Zapata
Gerardo Machado Morales
Lazaro Cardenas
22. America is not only...
the U.S.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
a commonwealth
Manuel Antonio Noriega
23. 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 ..
Balun Canan
continent
Antonio Conselherio
students
24. 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
Mexican Revolution
Markos Commandante
Lazaro Cardenas
Manuel Antonio Noriega
25. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
Gerardo Machado Morales
the guachafita
Andres Bello
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
26. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
continent
Caribbean
church
27. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Hopscotch
Carlota
muralists
Puerto Rico
28. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
gaucho (cowboy)
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Porfirio Diaz
the U.S.
29. Latin America is not a...
Borinquineers
Columbia
continent
parella - tortilla
30. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Carlota
democratic Caesarism
silver
Borinquineers
31. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Honduras
Porfirio Diaz
Lazaro Cardenas
Indians
32. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
muralists
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Jorge Luis Borges
Platt Amendment
33. Spain's signature popular dishes
parella - tortilla
students
Jose Marti
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
34. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
thirty-three (33)
Poetry
1917 Constitution
Santa Anna
35. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
Latin American realism
Panama's independence
Andres Bello
United Fruit Company
36. 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
Andres Bello
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Ruben Dario
Somoza family
37. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
Costa Rica
church
Jacobo Arbenz
Francisco Madero
38. 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
Americanism
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Gerardo Machado Morales
Jacobo Arbenz
39. 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.
Benito Juarez
Somoza family
Francisco Morazan
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
40. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Jorge Luis Borges
Lazaro Cardenas
Gerardo Machado Morales
Poetry
41. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Jacobo Arbenz
Columbia
Americanism
Costa Rica
42. 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
Markos Commandante
Ruben Dario
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
43. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
choteo
Treaty of Ancon
continent
Poetry
44. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Ruben Dario
Andres Bello
choteo
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
45. 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.
Jose Marti
Hopscotch
Jacobo Arbenz
Shoe
46. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Indians
Gerardo Machado Morales
The Mexican Revolution
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
47. Bogota
Gran Colombia
Honduras
Athens of South America
Treaty of Ancon
48. 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
the guachafita
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
The Mexican Revolution
Timber
49. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Costa Rica
Gran Colombia
One Hundred Years of Solitude
50. 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
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Jose Marti
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Hopscotch
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