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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
choteo
Jose Santos Zelaya
Gerardo Machado Morales
Jacobo Arbenz
2. 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
Santa Anna
Lazaro Cardenas
Tlatelolco
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
3. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
Ruben Dario
Americanism
Somoza family
Francisco Madero
4. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Shoe
Antonio Conselherio
an independent country
Carlota
5. Spain's signature popular dishes
Francisco Madero
Borinquineers
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
parella - tortilla
6. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Manuel Antonio Noriega
church
7. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
Honduras
Carlota
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Latin American realism
8. 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.
El Salvador
Jacobo Arbenz
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
realistic
9. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
Platt Amendment
The Mexican Revolution
illiterate (cant read or write)
Raul Salinas de Gotari
10. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
Latin American realism
muralists
Francisco Madero
the U.S.
11. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
thirty-three (33)
Latin American realism
Albizu Campos
Lazaro Cardenas
12. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
students
Columbia
the guachafita
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
13. 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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14. 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.
silver
Athens of South America
a commonwealth
Andres Bello
15. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Carlota
Columbia
continent
Puerto Rico
16. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Hopscotch
Jose Santos Zelaya
Raul Salinas de Gotari
17. 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
Tlatelolco
Carlota
Raul Salinas de Gotari
18. 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
Jose Santos Zelaya
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Ruben Dario
Porfirio Diaz
19. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
Costa Rica
Columbia
1999
realistic
20. 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
Jorge Luis Borges
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Tlatelolco
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
21. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Hopscotch
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Emiliano Zapata
Costa Rica
22. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Athens of South America
Poetry
Jose Santos Zelaya
Puerto Rico
23. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
choteo
Porfirio Diaz
The President
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.
William Walker
Augusto Cesar Sandino
thirty-three (33)
the bogotazo
25. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Andres Bello
Santa Anna
Treaty of Ancon
26. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Athens of South America
Puerto Rico
a commonwealth
27. 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
Morazan
Tlatelolco
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Treaty of Ancon
28. 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
El Salvador
the bogotazo
Somoza family
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
29. 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
the bogotazo
Borinquineers
muralists
30. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
Hatuey
Trujillo
parella - tortilla
the guachafita
31. 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
Carlota
Caribbean
1917 Constitution
silver
32. One of the inmates in New York patriots - led the expedition to liberate the island. His hunch written in a letter to his mother served and died in the battlefield. He bequeathed to posterity his desire for freedom - to which he had devoted his life
Jacobo Arbenz
Jose Marti
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Costa Rica
33. Cuba is in the ______ sea
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Albizu Campos
Caribbean
El Salvador
34. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
Raul Salinas de Gotari
El Salvador
choteo
Somoza family
35. 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
gaucho (cowboy)
Andres Bello
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Albizu Campos
36. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Lazaro Cardenas
Jose Santos Zelaya
Indians
Emiliano Zapata
37. 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
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Santa Anna
Lazaro Cardenas
38. Latin America is not a...
continent
democratic Caesarism
William Walker
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
39. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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40. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
muralists
Morazan
Balun Canan
Gran Colombia
41. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
the U.S.
Augusto Sandino
Costa Rica
One Hundred Years of Solitude
42. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
illiterate (cant read or write)
Borinquineers
El Salvador
gaucho (cowboy)
43. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
the guachafita
Andres Bello
an independent country
44. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
One Hundred Years of Solitude
illiterate (cant read or write)
45. 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 Castro (Fidel's brother)
a commonwealth
Lazaro Cardenas
The President
46. 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
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Tlatelolco
the U.S.
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
47. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Oscar Arias Sanchez
students
Hopscotch
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
48. 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.
Benito Juarez
Platt Amendment
Somoza family
Gerardo Machado Morales
49. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
Ruben Dario
United Fruit Company
parella - tortilla
modernism
50. 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
Porfirio Diaz
Trujillo
democratic Caesarism
Albizu Campos