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The result of the collapse of the world economy in 1929 in Latin America included
A dramatic drop in exports
Unemployment, bankruptcy and political chaos
Many military coups d état took place
All of these
All of these
Which of the following was a name of one of the indigenous pre-Columbian realms?
Tawatinsuyu
Cipango
Taino
New Spain
Tawatinsuyu
How are the indigenous peoples of Latin America represented in the travel accounts?
Indigenous people were seen as the objects of science
Indigenous peoples were often absented entirely
They served as additions to a picturesque landscape
All of these
Indigenous people were seen as the objects of science
Which of the following does the author consider to be the clearest example of a nineteenth century travel account, written about Latin America?
Charles Darwin s The Voyage of the Beagle
Marco Polo s The Travels of Marco Polo
Bilbo Baggins There and Back again
H.G. Wells, Around the World in 80 Days
Charles Darwin s The Voyage of the Beagle
Latin American culture has
Declined from its golden age
Has spread far beyond its physical geographical boundaries
Has stagnated due to economic factors
Has contributed to its technology and economic lag behind the U.S.
Has spread far beyond its physical geographical boundaries
According to Swanson, all of the following ideas EXCEPT which one have dominated Latin American development?
Civilization
Democracy
Capitalism
Collectivism
Collectivism
According to Swanson, the term Latin America refers to
French-speaking colonies in the Americas
The Incan and Aztec Empires
The transformed space that grew out of Spanish and Portuguese conquest
The notion of a new world.
The transformed space that grew out of Spanish and Portuguese conquest
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Why does Arturo Arias think that Latin American people have lived in never-ending political turmoil?
There is extreme inequality in Latin American society
Latin Americans are not culturally disposed toward democracy
Communist agitation
Lack of solid political institutions
There is extreme inequality in Latin American society
Which social position did mestizos occupy among the five social classes mentioned in the article?
They were the third group, in the middle, immediately below peninsulares and creoles,
They were lowest among the five groups, despised even by African slaves and Indians
They were in the second position, subordinate to Europeans but above creoles.
They acted as an important cultural bridge and translators between Europeans and Indigenous peoples.
They were the third group, in the middle, immediately below peninsulares and creoles,
One of the signs of the arrival of modernity in Latin America is .
The large-scale growth of cities
The decline of sugar plantations
The decline of the Hacienda
None of these
The large-scale growth of cities
The second voyage of Christopher Columbus included all of these EXCEPT which?
Soldiers
Women
Seeds
Cattle
Women
What historical event caused Europeans to begin to focus on the Atlantic?
The Reconquista of Iberia
The voyage of Christopher Columbus
The rise of the Ottoman Empire and the closing of the Silk Road.
The Protestant Reformation
The rise of the Ottoman Empire and the closing of the Silk Road.
Who of the following could be considered a corrupt and violent caudillo?
Juan Manuel de Rosas
General Antonio López de Santa Ana
Facundo Quiroga
All of these
All of these
Which of the following is a Chilean?
Clorinda Matto de Turner
Clarice Lispector
Jorge Isaacs
Isabelle Allende
Isabelle Allende
What was the size of the indigenous population living in what is now called Latin America according to this author?
2 million
Roughly 90 million
About 10 million
30 to 40 million
30 to 40 million
Which of the following female writers of the modernista movement won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945?
Juana de Ibarbouru (Uruguay)
Delmira Agustini (Uruguay)
Alfonsina Storni (Argentina)
Gabriela Mistral (Chile)
Gabriela Mistral (Chile)
Which of the following factors reduced the Arawak and Taino populations from over a million to a few thousands in a few decades?
Enslavement
European diseases
Starvation
All of these
All of these
Which of the following may be considered a writer of magical realism literature?
Esteban Echeverria
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jorge Isaacs
Jorge Machado de Assis
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
According to the author, which of the following regions continue to be influenced by indigenous cultures?
The Andean region
Argentina
Uruguay
Costa Rica
The Andean region
Which of the following best describes the Boom of Latin American literature in the 1960s?
The Boom exalted indigenous traditions
The Boom focused on regional realism
The Boom has been described as Magical Realism
The Boom reinforced the narrative of the Civilization vs. Barbarism
The Boom has been described as Magical Realism
What musical combinations gave rise to salsa in 1971?
Jazz and Rhythm and Blues
Rock and Roll and the Blues
Cuban son and rumba
Bachata and música andina
Cuban son and rumba
Compared to the European Union, Latin American exports
More telenovelas
Far less cultural goods
Far more cultural goods
Far more music
Far less cultural goods
Analysis of visual images is not only about the images, but also
Economic free market for such images
The subtle messages of domination embedded in the images
The viewer s subjective engagement with the image
None of these
The viewer s subjective engagement with the image
According to the chapter on popular culture in Latin American cultural critic, which of the following is a good example of popular culture?
Mexican rancheros
Mexican telenovelas
Zouk dancing from Martinique
Argentine tango
Argentine tango
Which of the following was a dominant artist of the Mexican muralist movement?
Diego Rivera
José Clemente Orozco
David Alfaro Siquieros
All of these
All of these
According to the chapter, which of the following characterizes modernity?
It follows a variety of different trajectories
It is complex
It is a multidimensional process
All of these
All of these
Which of the following issues does Juan Luis Guerra address as a cultural mediator with his song Visa para un sueño?
The inequities of global trade and restrictions on immigration from Latin America
The romance of true love
The importance of good sleep
The spread of democracy
The inequities of global trade and restrictions on immigration from Latin America
Which of the following is are considered the Latin American cultural product par excellence?
Telenovelas
Soccer
Salsa
Bachata
Telenovelas
Which of the following artists uses their art to critique European and colonial art institutions?
Torres García
Frida Kahlo
Fernando Botero
Diego Velázquez
Fernando Botero
According to one Latin American cultural critic, globalization is most effective in which of the following?
Economic domination of the European core
Military domination in the Middle East
Women s health issues in Africa
The audiovisual world: music, cinema, television and information technology
The audiovisual world: music, cinema, television and information technology
What term does Levine (2009) use to describe Latin American Catholicism at the beginning of the twentieth century?
a religious monopoly
Revolutionary
Religious pluralism
Liberationist
a religious monopoly
In which of the following countries did blacks form an independent political party in 1908?
In early twentieth-century Guatemala
In the Dominican Republic during the war with Haiti
In Colombia, the Manuel Quintín Lame movement
In Cuba, the Partido Independiente de Color
In Cuba, the Partido Independiente de Color
In which of the following are markers for male masculinity in the author s view?
Heavy drinking and adultery
Politely opening doors for women
Financial responsibility
Marital faithfulness
Heavy drinking and adultery
Who did Spanish and Portuguese colonists first exploit for labor?
Conquered slavic peoples
People from the East coast of Africa
The conquered Moors in Northern Africa
Indigenous people of the Americas
Indigenous people of the Americas
What does the October celebration called El Día de la Raza which commemorate?
The victory of Mexican peasants over the French forces of Maximillian in 1862
The end of the Mexican Revolution
The cry of Padre Hidalgo for independence in Mexico
the day Columbus landed in the Americas
the day Columbus landed in the Americas
According to Levine (2009), the violent targeting of priests and church activists caused which of the following changes in the focus of the church?
All of these
It cautiously withdrew from the public sphere
It became a champion of the victims of violence
It became apolitical
It became a champion of the victims of violence
According to the chapter on race in Latin America, within the human species, there is variation of which of the following?
All of these
genotype
Intermixture
phenotype
All of these
Why does Levine (2009) believe that Protestant Pentecostalism has been so successful in Latin America?
The appeal of opting out of political and drug violence
The appeal of divine healing and the possibility of a new life for the poor
All of these
The appeal of literacy and new forms of community for migrants
All of these
What characterized racial categories in Brazil?
Racial identity was determined by biological ancestry.
Racial identity was determined by linguistic dialect
Racial identity was determined by musical preferences
Racial identity was determined by class and culture rather than biology
Racial identity was determined by class and culture rather than biology
Which of the following best represents the Levine s view of the traditional political role of the Catholic Church? (Levine 1988)
The church restricted itself to moral issues
The church traditionally sided with the poor and the oppressed
the Catholic Church remained firmly allied with elites opposed to change
A strict separation of church and state
the Catholic Church remained firmly allied with elites opposed to change
According to Winn, the sugar plantation from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries was responsible for bringing how many slaves to the Americas?
20 million Africans
About 5 million
Around 9 million
None of these
Around 9 million
Which two nations of Latin America had the only realistic chance to compete with the United States for regional hegemony? (Smith, Talons).
Argentina and Brazil
Mexico and Peru
Guatemala and Bolivia
All of these
Argentina and Brazil
What was the attitude of Spanish American nations toward Brazil? (Smith, Talons).
Fear of Brazilian ambitions for regional hegemony
Ambivalence about including it in Pan-American unity
Resentment because of the inferiority of spoken Portuguese language
Eagerness to conquer Brazil and expropriate its territory
Ambivalence about including it in Pan-American unity
According to Peter Smith (Talons), which of the following characterized relations between the statesmen of North America and Latin America during the early years of the nineteenth century?
They were competing for hemispheric hegemony
There is a sense of abstract legality
There existed a sense of confraternal solidarity
A good neighbor policy
There existed a sense of confraternal solidarity
How did the Spanish Crown keep the power of the viceroys in check? (Winn)
Strict term limits
Rotating terms
a series of checks and balances with other lesser royal and church officials
One of their children was keep in Madrid as a hostage
a series of checks and balances with other lesser royal and church officials
According to Winn, by the eighteenth century, the children of Spaniards, born in the Americas were called which of the following terms?
Peninsulares
Mestizos
Castas
Creoles
Creoles
According to the Roosevelt Corollary (1904) to the Monroe Doctrine (Smith, Talons)
All nations, large and small, of the Americas, were equally sovereign
The United States and Brazil would work together to insure hemispheric peace
in case of international disputes between American and European nations, the United States retained the right to intervene and force arbitration
All of the above
in case of international disputes between American and European nations, the United States retained the right to intervene and force arbitration
What was the Encomienda? (Winn)
It was a charge to evangelize Indians
a royal grant of the right to Indian tribute, introduced in Hispaniola
It was a royal charge to keep going until they discovered the route to India
All of the above
a royal grant of the right to Indian tribute, introduced in Hispaniola
Which of the following characterized reaction in Latin American to U.S. expansionism? (Smith, Talons).
Search for unity among Latin American nations
Formation stronger ties with other European nations
Formation of nationalistic cultures of resistance
Formation of international law that put constraints on the U.S.
All of these
All of these
According to Winn, by the end of the colonial period, what percentage of the population was mestizo or casta ?
About half of the population of 20 million
Not more than 10 percent
Roughly one third of the total population of 17 million
All of these
Roughly one third of the total population of 17 million
In what way did Latin America contribute to the rise of Cool Britannia in 1997?
With the slogan there s a bit of Latin spirit in everyone .
Bacardi portrayed British youth as party animals by night, and conformists by day
The Bacardi advertising campaign presented the idea of latinidad undergirding sombre British settings
All of these
All of these
According F. Ortiz (p.101), an important human factor in the evolution of Cuba
The first settlers were highly ambitious
Blacks brought with them their technology and their traditions
continuous, radical, contrasting geographic transmigrations, economic and social.
All of the above
continuous, radical, contrasting geographic transmigrations, economic and social.
In recent years there has been a broad shift in the traditional image of Latin America
To an association with struggles for political liberation and high culture
To an association with sexual liberation and mass culture
To an association with Good Neighborliness
To an association with poverty and drug trafficking
To an association with sexual liberation and mass culture
What is one example of why Latin America is unique?
It exports the best rum
It is a unique mixture of Europeans, Africans and Asians
It was the first world region to be colonized by Europeans
None of these
It was the first world region to be colonized by Europeans
According F. Ortiz (100-101), both the whites and the blacks who came to Cuba were
Unwilling to work
extremely diverse ethnically and culturally
The crème of the crop
All of the above
extremely diverse ethnically and culturally
According F. Ortiz (p.98-103), transculturation is which of the following?
A process of transition from one culture to another
A vital change from one culture to another at varying tempos
A process of being forcibly ripped from one s own culture and tradition
The complicated process of the creation of a new, blended culture that is not exactly like either of the two parent cultures
The complicated process of the creation of a new, blended culture that is not exactly like either of the two parent cultures
According to Weber, what characterizes patriarchal domination? (Weber)
Norms are established rationally
There is a sense of abstract legality
It derives from tradition
It presupposes technical training
It derives from tradition
According to this chapter, for some Europeans or North Americans, the experience travel to Latin America may occasionally be
Exhilarating
Fulfilling
The experience of the fluidity of latinidad may be unsettling and disorienting
Educational
The experience of the fluidity of latinidad may be unsettling and disorienting
According to the chapter on globalization, Latin America has always been portrayed as which of the following?
Barbaric
Under developed
Exotic
Progressive
Exotic
What is the key difference between patrimonial versus patriarchal authority? (Weber)
Patrimonial authority is a little bit more intense
The decentralization of the household and the subject s claim to reciprocity
Patriarchal authority is less demanding
All of the above
The decentralization of the household and the subject s claim to reciprocity