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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Latin American realism
Emiliano Zapata
Poetry
Shoe
2. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Athens of South America
Augusto Sandino
3. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Jacobo Arbenz
Columbia
an independent country
thirty-three (33)
4. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
manufacturing
Indians
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Caribbean
5. 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.
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
El Salvador
Porfirio Diaz
Shoe
6. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
Gran Colombia
The Mexican Revolution
Costa Rica
a commonwealth
7. 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
Lazaro Cardenas
Caribbean
the bogotazo
Benito Juarez
8. In 1930 Trujillo assumed absolute powers of their homeland. He ruled for thirty years as if the country were his personal fiefdom. The tyrant imposed a reign of terror in the Dominican Republic - while its overseas agents carried out their plans to t
Ruben Dario
Francisco Madero
Trujillo
illiterate (cant read or write)
9. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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10. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
Lazaro Cardenas
students
Jacobo Arbenz
Raul Salinas de Gotari
11. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
Americanism
church
Trujillo
Jacobo Arbenz
12. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
1917 Constitution
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Platt Amendment
13. ...
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Caribbean
thirty-three (33)
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
14. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
Treaty of Ancon
Costa Rica
parella - tortilla
Francisco Madero
15. Spain's signature popular dishes
parella - tortilla
Lazaro Cardenas
Borinquineers
The President
16. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
muralists
Jacobo Arbenz
Treaty of Ancon
17. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Costa Rica
Gerardo Machado Morales
Puerto Rico
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
18. 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
Morazan
Antonio Conselherio
Honduras
19. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
the bogotazo
Platt Amendment
Ruben Dario
Jorge Luis Borges
20. 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
Platt Amendment
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Athens of South America
gaucho (cowboy)
21. America is not only...
an independent country
the U.S.
Porfirio Diaz
Augusto Sandino
22. 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
Lazaro Cardenas
Treaty of Ancon
Morazan
the U.S.
23. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
Poetry
Jose Marti
Jacobo Arbenz
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
24. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
Emiliano Zapata
Costa Rica
Porfirio Diaz
Panama's independence
25. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
Morazan
Timber
Hatuey
Jose Santos Zelaya
26. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
Tlatelolco
manufacturing
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Caribbean
27. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Mexican Revolution
Jacobo Arbenz
Treaty of Ancon
28. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Antonio Conselherio
Gerardo Machado Morales
Columbia
Platt Amendment
29. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Antonio Conselherio
Somoza family
Latin American realism
Ruben Dario
30. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Carlota
silver
Morazan
El Salvador
31. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Gerardo Machado Morales
Santa Anna
William Walker
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
32. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
continent
Balun Canan
Lazaro Cardenas
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
33. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
Athens of South America
Raul Salinas de Gotari
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
34. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Francisco Madero
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
illiterate (cant read or write)
35. 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
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Porfirio Diaz
Augusto Sandino
continent
36. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
Ruben Dario
democratic Caesarism
Jacobo Arbenz
thirty-three (33)
37. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Puerto Rico
thirty-three (33)
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
38. Bogota
Platt Amendment
Puerto Rico
Athens of South America
Emiliano Zapata
39. 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
muralists
Americanism
Ruben Dario
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
40. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Francisco Morazan
manufacturing
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Americanism
41. 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
continent
The Mexican Revolution
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Mexican Revolution
42. 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.
realistic
Jacobo Arbenz
Lazaro Cardenas
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
43. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
Shoe
the bogotazo
1999
gaucho (cowboy)
44. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
Lazaro Cardenas
a commonwealth
Honduras
Jose Marti
45. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
Lazaro Cardenas
William Walker
the guachafita
thirty-three (33)
46. Cuba is in the ______ sea
William Walker
Hopscotch
Caribbean
Jose Marti
47. 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
Lazaro Cardenas
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
1999
manufacturing
48. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
an independent country
Puerto Rico
Treaty of Ancon
the guachafita
49. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
Gerardo Machado Morales
Emiliano Zapata
realistic
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
50. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
Gerardo Machado Morales
Albizu Campos
church
illiterate (cant read or write)