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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
The President
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Porfirio Diaz
2. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
the U.S.
Jose Santos Zelaya
Ruben Dario
church
3. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Americanism
Puerto Rico
illiterate (cant read or write)
Indians
4. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
silver
Americanism
gaucho (cowboy)
Emiliano Zapata
5. 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
1917 Constitution
Trujillo
Ruben Dario
Columbia
6. 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
Albizu Campos
Markos Commandante
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Jacobo Arbenz
7. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Treaty of Ancon
Jose Santos Zelaya
The Mexican Revolution
Jorge Luis Borges
8. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
muralists
students
illiterate (cant read or write)
the U.S.
9. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
Shoe
Hatuey
realistic
Ruben Dario
10. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
One Hundred Years of Solitude
the U.S.
Puerto Rico
thirty-three (33)
11. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Jose Santos Zelaya
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
realistic
12. 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
Albizu Campos
Carlota
Oscar Arias Sanchez
13. 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
Latin American realism
Mexican Revolution
Raul Salinas de Gotari
14. 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
choteo
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
realistic
15. 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
a commonwealth
Latin American realism
Carlota
Tlatelolco
16. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
Ruben Dario
the guachafita
El Salvador
Lazaro Cardenas
17. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
the guachafita
United Fruit Company
Panama's independence
gaucho (cowboy)
18. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
1917 Constitution
continent
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Porfirio Diaz
19. 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.
Andres Bello
illiterate (cant read or write)
Jose Santos Zelaya
William Walker
20. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
continent
Jorge Luis Borges
Poetry
Hatuey
21. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
Timber
Mexican Revolution
silver
Andres Bello
22. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
Manuel Antonio Noriega
gaucho (cowboy)
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Oscar Arias Sanchez
23. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
Latin American realism
Jose Marti
Puerto Rico
illiterate (cant read or write)
24. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Porfirio Diaz
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Hatuey
Francisco Morazan
25. 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.
manufacturing
Panama's independence
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Jacobo Arbenz
26. 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
United Fruit Company
manufacturing
Timber
Lazaro Cardenas
27. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Augusto Sandino
Columbia
Indians
28. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
Antonio Conselherio
United Fruit Company
Jacobo Arbenz
The Mexican Revolution
29. 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
Trujillo
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
church
30. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Jacobo Arbenz
continent
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
The Mexican Revolution
31. 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
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Costa Rica
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
32. 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
Shoe
Puerto Rico
a commonwealth
33. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
Jacobo Arbenz
Latin American realism
illiterate (cant read or write)
Treaty of Ancon
34. 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
manufacturing
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Shoe
35. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Jacobo Arbenz
Hopscotch
36. 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
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Porfirio Diaz
Somoza family
United Fruit Company
37. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Carlota
Timber
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Trujillo
38. 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
Gran Colombia
Gerardo Machado Morales
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
39. 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.
William Walker
Gran Colombia
Porfirio Diaz
continent
40. ...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
choteo
the guachafita
Somoza family
41. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Treaty of Ancon
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Jose Marti
Lazaro Cardenas
42. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Timber
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Carlota
The Mexican Revolution
43. 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
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Jose Marti
Santa Anna
Americanism
44. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
Porfirio Diaz
Jose Santos Zelaya
Francisco Madero
Albizu Campos
45. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Platt Amendment
gaucho (cowboy)
Puerto Rico
students
46. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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47. 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
Poetry
Balun Canan
Gran Colombia
48. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
choteo
gaucho (cowboy)
Costa Rica
Augusto Cesar Sandino
49. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
the guachafita
Antonio Conselherio
parella - tortilla
Jorge Luis Borges
50. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Puerto Rico
Jose Marti
Shoe
Latin American realism