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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
Hatuey
modernism
Markos Commandante
1917 Constitution
2. 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
One Hundred Years of Solitude
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Morazan
3. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
Augusto Sandino
Costa Rica
Jose Marti
One Hundred Years of Solitude
4. Cuba is in the ______ sea
an independent country
Caribbean
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Hatuey
5. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Santa Anna
Jacobo Arbenz
The President
6. 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
Francisco Madero
Athens of South America
1917 Constitution
Markos Commandante
7. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Emiliano Zapata
realistic
Puerto Rico
The Mexican Revolution
8. 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.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Timber
Andres Bello
Lazaro Cardenas
9. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
students
the U.S.
Francisco Morazan
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
10. 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
Francisco Madero
Augusto Sandino
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Antonio Conselherio
11. few years later - came Luis Munoz Marin. It began as a nationalist patriot - but eventually changed his political philosophy by replacing the concept of the Commonwealth - ie domestic autonomy without international legal personality. Mu
Augusto Sandino
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
One Hundred Years of Solitude
students
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
continent
Porfirio Diaz
Hatuey
the bogotazo
13. 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
Carlota
Jose Santos Zelaya
Platt Amendment
Poetry
14. Spain's signature popular dishes
parella - tortilla
church
Somoza family
the guachafita
15. 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
Americanism
Hopscotch
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
16. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Gerardo Machado Morales
Oscar Arias Sanchez
William Walker
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
17. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
Jose Marti
Gerardo Machado Morales
a commonwealth
Andres Bello
18. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
Benito Juarez
Tlatelolco
Jose Marti
Borinquineers
19. Latin America is not a...
Costa Rica
continent
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Augusto Sandino
20. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Indians
silver
gaucho (cowboy)
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
21. 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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22. 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.
Jose Marti
students
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
William Walker
23. 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.
Jose Marti
Santa Anna
Raul Salinas de Gotari
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
24. ...
Puerto Rico
Hopscotch
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Latin American realism
25. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
El Salvador
Somoza family
Indians
Francisco Morazan
26. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
El Salvador
Jorge Luis Borges
illiterate (cant read or write)
Somoza family
27. 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 ..
William Walker
Hatuey
students
Panama's independence
28. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Antonio Conselherio
Francisco Morazan
Porfirio Diaz
Manuel Antonio Noriega
29. America is not only...
the U.S.
Jose Marti
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Jacobo Arbenz
30. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
The Mexican Revolution
Shoe
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
illiterate (cant read or write)
31. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
Jose Marti
Puerto Rico
United Fruit Company
The Mexican Revolution
32. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
Andres Bello
the bogotazo
gaucho (cowboy)
Hatuey
33. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Hopscotch
Emiliano Zapata
Ruben Dario
Panama's independence
34. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Andres Bello
1917 Constitution
parella - tortilla
Balun Canan
35. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
church
The Mexican Revolution
the guachafita
United Fruit Company
36. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Jose Marti
democratic Caesarism
an independent country
37. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
Hopscotch
manufacturing
Santa Anna
Jose Marti
38. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Lazaro Cardenas
the bogotazo
modernism
39. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
Treaty of Ancon
modernism
Jose Marti
Honduras
40. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
modernism
Trujillo
choteo
41. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Trujillo
Somoza family
Gerardo Machado Morales
One Hundred Years of Solitude
42. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
1999
Columbia
Antonio Conselherio
Jose Marti
43. 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.
Lazaro Cardenas
church
democratic Caesarism
continent
44. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
Ruben Dario
1917 Constitution
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
the U.S.
45. ...
Jose Marti
an independent country
United Fruit Company
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
46. 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
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Latin American realism
Timber
Morazan
47. 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
Balun Canan
Costa Rica
Santa Anna
Caribbean
48. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
parella - tortilla
Antonio Conselherio
Jose Santos Zelaya
Costa Rica
49. 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
Somoza family
Gran Colombia
Lazaro Cardenas
Jose Marti
50. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Jose Marti
modernism
Hopscotch
Andres Bello