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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. 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
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Antonio Conselherio
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Carlota
2. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Hatuey
The Mexican Revolution
Costa Rica
3. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Manuel Antonio Noriega
4. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
illiterate (cant read or write)
democratic Caesarism
Latin American realism
El Salvador
5. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
illiterate (cant read or write)
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Gerardo Machado Morales
6. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
Poetry
Porfirio Diaz
Antonio Conselherio
Jose Marti
7. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Santa Anna
Lazaro Cardenas
Antonio Conselherio
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
8. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
Carlota
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
El Salvador
Jacobo Arbenz
9. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Francisco Morazan
Lazaro Cardenas
Jorge Luis Borges
silver
10. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
Poetry
Shoe
The President
Gran Colombia
11. 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
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Gerardo Machado Morales
The Mexican Revolution
Gran Colombia
12. 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 ..
Raul Salinas de Gotari
students
illiterate (cant read or write)
Hopscotch
13. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
United Fruit Company
The Mexican Revolution
illiterate (cant read or write)
Puerto Rico
14. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
choteo
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
thirty-three (33)
Columbia
15. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Balun Canan
Jose Marti
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
16. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Platt Amendment
Hatuey
17. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
thirty-three (33)
Jacobo Arbenz
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
1999
18. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Tlatelolco
Francisco Madero
Gerardo Machado Morales
Ruben Dario
19. ...
Puerto Rico
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Poetry
Jorge Luis Borges
20. 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
Honduras
Morazan
Porfirio Diaz
Augusto Cesar Sandino
21. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
The President
muralists
Hopscotch
Columbia
22. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
Benito Juarez
Oscar Arias Sanchez
church
Jose Santos Zelaya
23. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Santa Anna
Augusto Sandino
24. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
parella - tortilla
the guachafita
Poetry
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
25. 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
Treaty of Ancon
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Gerardo Machado Morales
26. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Emiliano Zapata
William Walker
Jorge Luis Borges
Manuel Antonio Noriega
27. 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
Hopscotch
the bogotazo
Jose Marti
Porfirio Diaz
28. the illiterate indigenous noble. In the south - continued the struggle for Land and Freedom << >> - << convinced that it is better to die standing than live on your knees >> - slogan adopted by the Republicans after the Civil War in Spain.
Augusto Sandino
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Shoe
Costa Rica
29. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Hopscotch
Somoza family
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Columbia
30. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
Borinquineers
Athens of South America
democratic Caesarism
Somoza family
31. 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
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Lazaro Cardenas
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
32. 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
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Latin American realism
a commonwealth
Porfirio Diaz
33. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
1999
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Carlota
Porfirio Diaz
34. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
Lazaro Cardenas
Jacobo Arbenz
Treaty of Ancon
Jose Santos Zelaya
35. 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
Jacobo Arbenz
Panama's independence
Porfirio Diaz
choteo
36. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
1999
Porfirio Diaz
Oscar Arias Sanchez
the guachafita
37. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Jacobo Arbenz
Indians
the bogotazo
Borinquineers
38. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
Jose Santos Zelaya
Balun Canan
Puerto Rico
gaucho (cowboy)
39. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Trujillo
thirty-three (33)
Jose Marti
Lazaro Cardenas
40. Latin America is not a...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
continent
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Gran Colombia
41. 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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42. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Mexican Revolution
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Poetry
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
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Manuel Antonio Noriega
The President
Tlatelolco
44. 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.
Markos Commandante
Benito Juarez
a commonwealth
Oscar Arias Sanchez
45. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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46. 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
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
silver
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
church
47. 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
Tlatelolco
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Morazan
Poetry
48. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Honduras
Puerto Rico
Balun Canan
Porfirio Diaz
49. America is not only...
Puerto Rico
the U.S.
Benito Juarez
Jose Marti
50. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
Platt Amendment
continent
the guachafita
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
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