What are the characteristics of Modernism ()? There are 10. Correct Answer: 1. Loneliness
2. Sensuality
3. Defense of Indigenism
4. Harmony
5. Exoticism
6. Fine Materials
7. Mythological
8. Sayings/Gallicism
9. Aristocratic
10. Change of meter
Who was the most important modernist? Whe...
CSET Spanish Subtest 2 | 397 Questions with
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What are the characteristics of Modernism (1888-1910)? There are 10. Correct Answer: 1.
Loneliness
2. Sensuality
3. Defense of Indigenism
4. Harmony
5. Exoticism
6. Fine Materials
7. Mythological
8. Sayings/Gallicism
9. Aristocratic
10. Change of meter
Who was the most important modernist? Where was he from? Correct Answer: Ruben Dario
Nicaragua
This type of writing Gained popularity in mid-13th Century w/ Alfonso X Correct Answer:
Spanish Prose
The last great poet of middle ages. Wrote Coplas a la muerte de su padre. Correct Answer: Jorge
Manrique
First to introduce Sonnet into Spanish Literature Correct Answer: Iñigo López de Mendoza
Facts of Juan Ruiz Correct Answer: 1. Castilian Poet
2. 14 Century
3. Writer of (Libro de un Buen Amor)
4. Mester de Clerencia
Facts of Alfonso X (The Wise) Correct Answer: 1. Translation of works from Arabic to Latin.
2. Vernacular of Castle
3. Use of Castilian
4. Prolific Author (Writer) of 300 Poems.
5. Gacilian
Father of Spanish Prose. King of Castile and Leon. Correct Answer: Alfonso X (1252-1284)
Mester de clerencia Correct Answer: Intend for instruction, didacticism and erudition
13 Century.
Facts of Cantar de Mio Cid Correct Answer: 1. Real man, battles, conquests,
2. 1140
3. Realism
,4. No super natural beings
5. 14 silabas
6. Mester de Juglaria
Arte menor Correct Answer: Verses of 8 or less
Arte mayor Correct Answer: Verses of 9 or more syllables
Tamales are also called Correct Answer: humitas
Sancocho/guisado Correct Answer: stew
What is corn called in Andean countries? Correct Answer: el choclo
What is cooked on a comal (griddle)? Correct Answer: tortillas
Machu Picchu was discovered again in the year Correct Answer: 1911
A device used to make tortillas (a flat or slightly hollowed oblong stone on which materials such
as grain and cocoa are ground using a smaller stone.) Correct Answer: un metate
The indigenous of Mesoamerica thought that the Creators made people out of which food?
Correct Answer: Corn (Maíz)
La Epifanía is celebrated on what day? It's also known as what? Who do kids think bring them
presents? Correct Answer: 6th of January. The Feast of the Magi Kings. The 3 kings.
Día de los muertos is celebrated on what day? Correct Answer: 2nd of november
The Inca lived along which mountain range? How many countries did they inhabit? Correct
Answer: The Andes. 4 (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, y Chile)
La cordillera blanca can be found in which country? Correct Answer: Perú
The Iglesia de San Francisco de Quito is in which country? Correct Answer: Mexico
A popular Peruvian dance that is danced accompanied by clapping/applause. The dresses vary
only slightly from those used in flamenco. Correct Answer: la marinera
"Segunda carta de relacion" and "Vision de los vencidos" are works from what literary period?
Correct Answer: Colonial literary movement
This term refers to the literature during the age of Spanish colonization of the Americas. Correct
Answer: Colonial
, ____________ was the only religion allowed in South America the colonial era, the indigenous
were forced to abandon their beliefs, although many did not abandon it at all, for example,
countries with predominantly Amerindian population such as ________ and _______ there is a
syncretism between indigenous religions and the Catholic religion, that has occurred since
colonial times. In Brazil or Colombia, Catholicism was mixed with certain _________ rituals.
Correct Answer: Catholicism. Bolivia. Peru. African
__________ ______________ is the dominant religion in South America. Correct Answer:
Roman Catholicism
The tango lived on in smaller venues until its revival in the 1980s following the opening in Paris
of the show ________ ______________ , The Broadway musical Forever Tango, and in Europe
Tango Pasión. Correct Answer: Tango Argentino
Tango is dance, ______, and _______. Correct Answer: Music and poetry
Tango has roots in ______ and _____ culture. Dances from former _______ helped shape the
modern tango. Correct Answer: African and European. Slave
In 1917, folk singer Carlos _________ recorded his first tango song Mi Noche Triste, forever
associating tango with the feeling of tragic love as revealed in the lyric. Correct Answer: Gardel
Tango comes from __(city and country)___ and __(city and country)___, having an influence on
both sides of the Rio de la ___________. Correct Answer: Buenos Aires, Argentina and
Montevideo, Uruguay. PLATA. European and South American Immigrants all brought their
music with them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is part of what literary movement? Correct Answer: The Boom/
Magical realism
Jorge Luis Borges is part of what literary movement? Correct Answer: The Boom
Osvaldo Dragún (Argentina) is part of what literary movement? Correct Answer: The Boom
Chac Mool is about...Is authored by...and is part of what period of literature? Correct Answer: 1.
Filiberto - adquiere una piedra de Chac Mool
2. Con el paso del tiempo se transforma en ser vivo
3. El dios ejerce un control hasta dominar a Filiberto.
4. Busca liberar esta esclavitud huyendo a Acapulco, donde encuentra la muerte.
Parte del BOOM en LA (Latino America)
Similarities between Chac Mool by Fuentes and Casa Tomada by Cortazar Correct Answer: 1.
Entidad maligna ominosa
2. Que invade y se apropia del espacio de la casa familiar
3. Personajes apegados que huyen
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