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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
Timber
the U.S.
Francisco Madero
Honduras
2. Latin America is not a...
Hatuey
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
continent
3. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
Antonio Conselherio
Hatuey
Poetry
Francisco Madero
4. America is not only...
Lazaro Cardenas
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Jacobo Arbenz
the U.S.
5. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
the U.S.
Ruben Dario
Porfirio Diaz
Carlota
6. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Antonio Conselherio
a commonwealth
Somoza family
Oscar Arias Sanchez
7. 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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8. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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9. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
a commonwealth
Honduras
1917 Constitution
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
10. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Borinquineers
Francisco Morazan
Hatuey
11. 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.
Francisco Madero
Jacobo Arbenz
Manuel Antonio Noriega
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
12. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Jacobo Arbenz
Jacobo Arbenz
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Andres Bello
13. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
Andres Bello
Treaty of Ancon
Somoza family
El Salvador
14. 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
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
The President
Jose Marti
1917 Constitution
15. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Latin American realism
students
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Americanism
16. 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
Albizu Campos
Treaty of Ancon
choteo
Gran Colombia
17. 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
Morazan
Lazaro Cardenas
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
silver
18. 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
El Salvador
Borinquineers
Latin American realism
Augusto Sandino
19. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
William Walker
Andres Bello
an independent country
Indians
20. 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
illiterate (cant read or write)
Puerto Rico
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
21. 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.
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Jose Santos Zelaya
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Honduras
22. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
Augusto Cesar Sandino
illiterate (cant read or write)
Honduras
continent
23. 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
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Somoza family
silver
Benito Juarez
24. Cuba is in the ______ sea
thirty-three (33)
Caribbean
Jorge Luis Borges
illiterate (cant read or write)
25. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
Jose Santos Zelaya
Benito Juarez
an independent country
realistic
26. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
Porfirio Diaz
muralists
Treaty of Ancon
Gran Colombia
27. ...
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
students
Augusto Sandino
Porfirio Diaz
28. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Francisco Morazan
continent
1999
Albizu Campos
29. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Poetry
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Puerto Rico
Lazaro Cardenas
30. 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 ..
students
Timber
The President
1999
31. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
1917 Constitution
The Mexican Revolution
Francisco Madero
manufacturing
32. 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
illiterate (cant read or write)
Latin American realism
the bogotazo
Porfirio Diaz
33. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
Carlota
silver
Hatuey
choteo
34. 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
democratic Caesarism
an independent country
Santa Anna
Puerto Rico
35. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Costa Rica
Jorge Luis Borges
realistic
36. 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
Caribbean
a commonwealth
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Markos Commandante
37. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
The Mexican Revolution
Hatuey
the U.S.
38. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Hatuey
Andres Bello
Americanism
39. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Carlota
Emiliano Zapata
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
40. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Lazaro Cardenas
Honduras
Timber
Gerardo Machado Morales
41. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
Treaty of Ancon
Andres Bello
thirty-three (33)
Shoe
42. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Balun Canan
United Fruit Company
Francisco Madero
Poetry
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
Athens of South America
Tlatelolco
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Borinquineers
44. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Ruben Dario
Hopscotch
Jose Santos Zelaya
45. 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
Shoe
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
William Walker
Hatuey
46. Spain's signature popular dishes
gaucho (cowboy)
parella - tortilla
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Mexican Revolution
47. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
El Salvador
Augusto Sandino
Shoe
48. 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
Puerto Rico
a commonwealth
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Platt Amendment
49. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Gerardo Machado Morales
the U.S.
Balun Canan
Porfirio Diaz
50. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
Jose Marti
Jose Santos Zelaya
William Walker
Santa Anna
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