The purpose of this assignment is to critically reflect on Week 1 topic: An Introduction to the Central American People and Centro America.

Quiz #1 Questions (Karina A. Alvarado, Alicia Ivonne Estrada, and Ester E. Hernandez Introduction Chapter)

1. What did the authors say about the Central American northern triangle, and the Reagan Doctrine?
2. What did the authors say about La Matanza (The Salvadoran Slaughter), and U.S military funding?
3. What did the authors say about the Silent Holocaust, and Bill Clinton? 
4. What did the authors say about Hurricane Mitch, and Manuel Zelaya? 
5. What did the authors say about the TPS program 1998, and Operation Just Cause? 
6. What did the authors say about Black Panamanian immigrants, and the lost decade? 
7. Identify the 2006 Central American Free Trade agreement? 
8. Identify the 2006 May Day March, and the 2010 U.S Census.  
9. Identify the Los Angeles gateway, and Little Central America.
10. Identify the author’s discourse (argument) of not hyphenating Central American national identities? 
11. Identify California’s cluster, and Central American Maya scholarship? 
12. What did Arturo Arias theorize about identity?
13. What is Departamento 15? 
14. Identify Ana Patricia’s Salvadorenidades.
15. Identify the author’s discourse (argument) of U.S Central American identity?

True/False #1 Assignment Key Terms (Aviva Chomsky Chapter 1)

1. history matters
2. Black legend 
3. settler colonialism 
4. Haiti 
5. neocolonial relationship 
6. Spanish colonizers 
7. Indian allies 
8. preconquest population 
9. Indian resistance 
10. Caribbean coast peoples 
11. strict hierarchical division 
12. popular memories 
13. Carolyn Forche 
14. Central Americans migrating 
15. U.S government records