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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. 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
Gran Colombia
Shoe
Trujillo
Honduras
2. 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
a commonwealth
Indians
Santa Anna
Timber
3. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Poetry
Latin American realism
The Mexican Revolution
Augusto Cesar Sandino
4. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
1999
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Morazan
5. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Emiliano Zapata
1999
choteo
6. 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
Columbia
Platt Amendment
Carlota
7. 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
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Trujillo
Costa Rica
Francisco Morazan
8. attempts were made to end the chaos by a Conservative government - inspired by Generalissimo Franco's Falange. That government failed and was deposed by General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. To maintain his dictatorship with the consent of the United States
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Jose Santos Zelaya
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
El Salvador
9. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
1999
Augusto Sandino
democratic Caesarism
Americanism
10. 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 ..
thirty-three (33)
Treaty of Ancon
Markos Commandante
students
11. 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
Mexican Revolution
choteo
Balun Canan
Ruben Dario
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
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
students
Tlatelolco
Indians
13. 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
Markos Commandante
Platt Amendment
Somoza family
Puerto Rico
14. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
modernism
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
United Fruit Company
One Hundred Years of Solitude
15. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Jacobo Arbenz
the bogotazo
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Hopscotch
16. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
Platt Amendment
realistic
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Treaty of Ancon
17. 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
Lazaro Cardenas
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
18. Latin America is not a...
students
United Fruit Company
continent
Andres Bello
19. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Augusto Sandino
Costa Rica
Latin American realism
Athens of South America
20. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Puerto Rico
silver
Puerto Rico
21. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Santa Anna
Gran Colombia
Puerto Rico
El Salvador
22. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Gerardo Machado Morales
Antonio Conselherio
Hopscotch
Platt Amendment
23. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Porfirio Diaz
Jose Marti
Porfirio Diaz
Jorge Luis Borges
24. 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.
Shoe
William Walker
students
the U.S.
25. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Timber
continent
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Emiliano Zapata
26. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
Puerto Rico
illiterate (cant read or write)
Markos Commandante
Gerardo Machado Morales
27. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
Jacobo Arbenz
an independent country
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
students
28. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
Puerto Rico
Antonio Conselherio
Hatuey
modernism
29. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Mexican Revolution
Andres Bello
Lazaro Cardenas
Balun Canan
30. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
Treaty of Ancon
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Somoza family
The Mexican Revolution
31. ...
Jorge Luis Borges
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Antonio Conselherio
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
32. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Treaty of Ancon
parella - tortilla
the guachafita
33. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
modernism
Francisco Madero
Caribbean
Columbia
34. 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
the guachafita
continent
muralists
35. 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
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Emiliano Zapata
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Honduras
36. 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
Jacobo Arbenz
Morazan
Francisco Morazan
37. 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
Borinquineers
the bogotazo
muralists
illiterate (cant read or write)
38. 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
Poetry
Porfirio Diaz
Borinquineers
gaucho (cowboy)
39. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
Andres Bello
Jose Marti
Oscar Arias Sanchez
The President
40. 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.
the bogotazo
Augusto Sandino
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Timber
41. 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
Trujillo
Latin American realism
1917 Constitution
Oscar Arias Sanchez
42. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
students
Gran Colombia
Puerto Rico
43. Bogota
Ruben Dario
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Caribbean
Athens of South America
44. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
Markos Commandante
Shoe
Carlota
Francisco Madero
45. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Albizu Campos
Andres Bello
Balun Canan
46. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
The President
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Jose Marti
47. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Jose Santos Zelaya
Antonio Conselherio
continent
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
48. 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.
Porfirio Diaz
the guachafita
Raul Salinas de Gotari
church
49. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Honduras
church
Lazaro Cardenas
50. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Somoza family
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Jose Marti