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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. America is not only...
Lazaro Cardenas
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
the U.S.
2. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
an independent country
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Jacobo Arbenz
Jose Marti
3. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
the guachafita
an independent country
Hopscotch
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
4. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
Indians
muralists
manufacturing
Porfirio Diaz
5. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Jose Marti
Poetry
1917 Constitution
Jacobo Arbenz
6. 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.
the bogotazo
Markos Commandante
democratic Caesarism
The President
7. 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
Santa Anna
Carlota
Latin American realism
Ruben Dario
8. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Shoe
Jacobo Arbenz
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Markos Commandante
9. 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
Americanism
silver
Oscar Arias Sanchez
10. 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
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Lazaro Cardenas
Mexican Revolution
Benito Juarez
11. 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.
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Platt Amendment
Andres Bello
Hatuey
12. 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
Porfirio Diaz
an independent country
gaucho (cowboy)
Morazan
13. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
a commonwealth
an independent country
silver
14. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Antonio Conselherio
parella - tortilla
1917 Constitution
15. 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.
Athens of South America
William Walker
Poetry
Somoza family
16. 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 ..
Indians
Markos Commandante
students
Trujillo
17. 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
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Francisco Madero
Antonio Conselherio
Porfirio Diaz
18. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Indians
a commonwealth
Puerto Rico
realistic
19. 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
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Lazaro Cardenas
silver
20. 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
modernism
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
1917 Constitution
Raul Salinas de Gotari
21. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
Andres Bello
El Salvador
illiterate (cant read or write)
Antonio Conselherio
22. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
1999
the bogotazo
Jacobo Arbenz
Jose Santos Zelaya
23. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
Honduras
Porfirio Diaz
1917 Constitution
The President
24. ...
Santa Anna
1917 Constitution
Augusto Sandino
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
25. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
Markos Commandante
choteo
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Porfirio Diaz
26. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
Andres Bello
Ruben Dario
1917 Constitution
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
27. Latin America is not a...
One Hundred Years of Solitude
continent
Hatuey
Jose Santos Zelaya
28. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Balun Canan
muralists
a commonwealth
Andres Bello
29. 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
Morazan
the bogotazo
realistic
Puerto Rico
30. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
Puerto Rico
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Ruben Dario
Gran Colombia
31. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Jose Marti
Columbia
1917 Constitution
Carlota
32. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Puerto Rico
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Oscar Arias Sanchez
manufacturing
33. 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
William Walker
Albizu Campos
Mexican Revolution
an independent country
34. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Benito Juarez
the bogotazo
Jorge Luis Borges
Balun Canan
35. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
muralists
Borinquineers
Antonio Conselherio
Gerardo Machado Morales
36. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Jose Marti
Treaty of Ancon
Gerardo Machado Morales
37. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
Jose Santos Zelaya
Borinquineers
choteo
modernism
38. Spain's signature popular dishes
parella - tortilla
Antonio Conselherio
realistic
Manuel Antonio Noriega
39. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Markos Commandante
United Fruit Company
democratic Caesarism
Lazaro Cardenas
40. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
Jose Marti
Shoe
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
silver
41. 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.
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The President
Timber
Francisco Madero
42. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
The Mexican Revolution
Trujillo
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
democratic Caesarism
43. Cuba is in the ______ sea
Hatuey
The President
Andres Bello
Caribbean
44. 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
Hatuey
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Jose Marti
church
45. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Jose Santos Zelaya
Platt Amendment
Santa Anna
Gerardo Machado Morales
46. Bogota
Andres Bello
Albizu Campos
Athens of South America
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
47. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
Puerto Rico
Shoe
Porfirio Diaz
Markos Commandante
48. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
Hatuey
Americanism
Puerto Rico
Raul Salinas de Gotari
49. 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
Augusto Sandino
Raul Salinas de Gotari
1999
choteo
50. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
Hatuey
a commonwealth
realistic
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic