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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. 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.
democratic Caesarism
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
The Mexican Revolution
Oscar Arias Sanchez
2. 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.
the bogotazo
William Walker
Santa Anna
El Salvador
3. 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
Platt Amendment
Gerardo Machado Morales
Francisco Madero
4. 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
Francisco Madero
Carlota
the bogotazo
Mexican Revolution
5. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
continent
modernism
Treaty of Ancon
6. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Lazaro Cardenas
Porfirio Diaz
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Gerardo Machado Morales
7. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
Platt Amendment
Porfirio Diaz
Jacobo Arbenz
Gerardo Machado Morales
8. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
manufacturing
Jacobo Arbenz
Francisco Madero
Caribbean
9. 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
Athens of South America
Augusto Sandino
Porfirio Diaz
manufacturing
10. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Emiliano Zapata
Hatuey
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
11. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Balun Canan
United Fruit Company
Jose Santos Zelaya
Augusto Sandino
12. 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
Andres Bello
an independent country
Hopscotch
13. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
Ruben Dario
the guachafita
realistic
Markos Commandante
14. 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
Tlatelolco
gaucho (cowboy)
Carlota
Emiliano Zapata
15. On the contrary - the crisis during the economic downturn accelerated the impoverishment and encouraged corruption. Hurricanes - which at that time were more intense and more destructive than usual - the situation worsened. In these circumstances - i
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Panama's independence
Albizu Campos
Francisco Madero
16. 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
Puerto Rico
Santa Anna
Panama's independence
a commonwealth
17. 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
Andres Bello
gaucho (cowboy)
Caribbean
Platt Amendment
18. 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.
Benito Juarez
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Augusto Sandino
The President
19. 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
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Markos Commandante
Carlota
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
20. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
The Mexican Revolution
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Honduras
Benito Juarez
21. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Antonio Conselherio
Raul Salinas de Gotari
22. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
Lazaro Cardenas
Shoe
El Salvador
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
23. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Tlatelolco
illiterate (cant read or write)
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Jose Marti
24. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
Jacobo Arbenz
Caribbean
El Salvador
gaucho (cowboy)
25. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
El Salvador
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
a commonwealth
manufacturing
26. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
27. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
Albizu Campos
1999
The Mexican Revolution
church
28. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
Emiliano Zapata
Francisco Madero
Caribbean
muralists
29. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Andres Bello
Hatuey
William Walker
30. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
Francisco Madero
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Ruben Dario
United Fruit Company
31. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Manuel Antonio Noriega
1917 Constitution
a commonwealth
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
32. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
illiterate (cant read or write)
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Francisco Morazan
choteo
33. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
Puerto Rico
illiterate (cant read or write)
Santa Anna
Latin American realism
34. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Costa Rica
students
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
35. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
realistic
The Mexican Revolution
Augusto Cesar Sandino
One Hundred Years of Solitude
36. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
the guachafita
Costa Rica
The President
Gerardo Machado Morales
37. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Carlota
Jose Santos Zelaya
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
parella - tortilla
38. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
Honduras
Timber
Shoe
One Hundred Years of Solitude
39. 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.
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Jacobo Arbenz
Shoe
Morazan
40. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Jacobo Arbenz
an independent country
Mexican Revolution
41. 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
Ruben Dario
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Jose Marti
Markos Commandante
42. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
manufacturing
Lazaro Cardenas
Balun Canan
Augusto Cesar Sandino
43. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
modernism
a commonwealth
Albizu Campos
1999
44. Bogota
Athens of South America
Francisco Morazan
Poetry
modernism
45. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Jorge Luis Borges
Jose Marti
Puerto Rico
Timber
46. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Lazaro Cardenas
the U.S.
a commonwealth
Morazan
47. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
Panama's independence
students
an independent country
Borinquineers
48. Cuba is in the ______ sea
Mexican Revolution
Athens of South America
Caribbean
church
49. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Columbia
Albizu Campos
the bogotazo
50. 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.
Augusto Sandino
the U.S.
Andres Bello
Oscar Arias Sanchez