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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
Columbia
choteo
Puerto Rico
modernism
2. 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.
Timber
Shoe
Oscar Arias Sanchez
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
3. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
choteo
democratic Caesarism
Jose Marti
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
4. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
Augusto Sandino
students
realistic
silver
5. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Poetry
Augusto Sandino
El Salvador
Benito Juarez
6. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Balun Canan
The President
7. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
Balun Canan
Platt Amendment
Manuel Antonio Noriega
the guachafita
8. 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
Augusto Sandino
an independent country
1917 Constitution
Carlota
9. 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
Puerto Rico
Porfirio Diaz
Ruben Dario
a commonwealth
10. 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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11. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
democratic Caesarism
Antonio Conselherio
an independent country
Carlota
12. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
Manuel Antonio Noriega
democratic Caesarism
Jacobo Arbenz
Porfirio Diaz
13. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
manufacturing
Lazaro Cardenas
El Salvador
church
14. 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.
Francisco Madero
Benito Juarez
Poetry
modernism
15. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Treaty of Ancon
Jose Marti
Gerardo Machado Morales
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
16. Bogota
Athens of South America
Markos Commandante
illiterate (cant read or write)
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
17. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Puerto Rico
Timber
Somoza family
Panama's independence
18. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
1999
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
parella - tortilla
Indians
19. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
Jose Marti
Jacobo Arbenz
parella - tortilla
gaucho (cowboy)
20. 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
continent
Ruben Dario
Santa Anna
Jose Marti
21. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Costa Rica
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Ruben Dario
Poetry
22. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
Borinquineers
Lazaro Cardenas
Hopscotch
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
23. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
Poetry
Hatuey
United Fruit Company
Francisco Morazan
24. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
parella - tortilla
Columbia
Gerardo Machado Morales
25. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Andres Bello
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Puerto Rico
26. 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
Mexican Revolution
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Somoza family
Athens of South America
27. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
students
Emiliano Zapata
El Salvador
Carlota
28. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
illiterate (cant read or write)
Albizu Campos
Jacobo Arbenz
Emiliano Zapata
29. ...
Andres Bello
Somoza family
Panama's independence
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
30. 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
Gran Colombia
Manuel Antonio Noriega
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
31. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
Francisco Morazan
Caribbean
Gerardo Machado Morales
Jacobo Arbenz
32. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
Francisco Madero
manufacturing
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Hopscotch
33. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
Honduras
Shoe
Emiliano Zapata
El Salvador
34. 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
manufacturing
Markos Commandante
Jorge Luis Borges
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
35. 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
manufacturing
Mexican Revolution
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Columbia
36. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
The President
Somoza family
Latin American realism
Balun Canan
37. 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
Borinquineers
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Hatuey
Mexican Revolution
38. 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
Emiliano Zapata
Gran Colombia
Santa Anna
Jose Marti
39. ...
Jorge Luis Borges
Timber
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
40. 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
Hopscotch
Lazaro Cardenas
Porfirio Diaz
Athens of South America
41. 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.
Benito Juarez
Platt Amendment
Francisco Madero
Andres Bello
42. 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.
Benito Juarez
William Walker
church
Jacobo Arbenz
43. 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
students
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Morazan
the guachafita
44. Spain's signature popular dishes
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
modernism
parella - tortilla
Platt Amendment
45. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Lazaro Cardenas
Trujillo
Platt Amendment
Gerardo Machado Morales
46. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
choteo
democratic Caesarism
Ruben Dario
muralists
47. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
muralists
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Jacobo Arbenz
silver
48. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Francisco Madero
El Salvador
Hopscotch
Gerardo Machado Morales
49. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Antonio Conselherio
gaucho (cowboy)
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Latin American realism
50. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Columbia
Ruben Dario
Platt Amendment
Jacobo Arbenz