STUDY GUIDE
FOR MID-TERM
LATI 50
Introduction to Latin America
ABOUT THE MIDTERM (i)
• Coverage: Weeks 1-6
• Grade share: 33% (without optional paper)
• Format: closed-book exam (no electronic devices)
• Date: Thursday, February 20 (in class)
• Duration: 80 minutes (3:30-4:50 pm)
• Bring blue books and writing materials
ABOUT THE MIDTERM (ii)
• Readings:
– Modern Latin America, introduction + chapters 1-6, 9-10,
12-13
– MLA website, Documents 10, 37, 39
– García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
• Videos:
– “The Garden of Forking Paths”
– “Mirrors of the Heart”
• Class Notes:
– Lectures 1-12 (outlines on-line)
STUDY GUIDE (a)
Identify and state the significance of:
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Santiago Nasar
Bayardo San Román
Emiliano Zapata
Evita Perón
The “boom”
ISI
César Augusto Sandino
Mestizaje
Platt Amendment
NAFTA
Bureaucratic-authoritarian regimes
Augusto Pinochet
Hispanidad
STUDY GUIDE (b)
• Compare the Spanish American path to independence
with that of Brazil. What difference did it make?
• How does Chronicle of a Death Foretold exemplify
the phenomenon of “magical realism”?
• Compare the Mexican Revolution with either (a) the
Cuban Revolution, or (b) the revolution in Nicaragua.
• Compare economic strategies in Chile and Argentina.
• Describe Latin America’s patterns of democratization
during the course of the twentieth century. What are
the implications of these trends?