CSET Spanish Subtest 2 Questions with Verified Answers

What are the characteristics of Modernism ()? There are 10. - 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? - Answer- Ruben Dario Nicaragua This type of writing Gained popularity in mid-13th Century w/ Alfonso X - Answer- Spanish Prose The last great poet of middle ages. Wrote Coplas a la muerte de su padre. - Answer- Jorge Manrique First to introduce Sonnet into Spanish Literature - Answer- Iñigo López de Mendoza Facts of Juan Ruiz - 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) - 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. - Answer- Alfonso X () Mester de clerencia - Answer- Intend for instruction, didacticism and erudition 13 Century. Facts of Cantar de Mio Cid - Answer- 1. Real man, battles, conquests, 2. 1140 3. Realism 4. No super natural beings 5. 14 silabas 6. Mester de Juglaria Arte menor - Answer- Verses of 8 or less Arte mayor - Answer- Verses of 9 or more syllables Tamales are also called - Answer- humitas Sancocho/guisado - Answer- stew What is corn called in Andean countries? - Answer- el choclo What is cooked on a comal (griddle)? - Answer- tortillas Machu Picchu was discovered again in the year - 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.) - Answer- un metate The indigenous of Mesoamerica thought that the Creators made people out of which food? - Answer- Corn (Maíz) La Epifanía is celebrated on what day? It's also known as what? Who do kids think bring them presents? - Answer- 6th of January. The Feast of the Magi Kings. The 3 kings. Día de los muertos is celebrated on what day? - Answer- 2nd of november The Inca lived along which mountain range? How many countries did they inhabit? - Answer- The Andes. 4 (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, y Chile) La cordillera blanca can be found in which country? - Answer- Perú The Iglesia de San Francisco de Quito is in which country? - Answer- Mexico A popular Peruvian dance that is danced accompanied by clapping/applause. The dresses vary only slightly from those used in flamenco. - Answer- la marinera "Segunda carta de relacion" and "Vision de los vencidos" are works from what literary period? - Answer- Colonial literary movement This term refers to the literature during the age of Spanish colonization of the Americas. - 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. - Answer- Catholicism. Bolivia. Peru. African __________ ______________ is the dominant religion in South America. - 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. - Answer- Tango Argentino Tango is dance, ______, and _______. - Answer- Music and poetry Tango has roots in ______ and _____ culture. Dances from former _______ helped shape the modern tango. - 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. - Answer- Gardel Tango comes from __(city and country)___ and __(city and country)___, having an influence on both sides of the Rio de la ___________. - 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? - Answer- The Boom/ Magical realism Jorge Luis Borges is part of what literary movement? - Answer- The Boom Osvaldo Dragún (Argentina) is part of what literary movement? - Answer- The Boom Chac Mool is about...Is authored by...and is part of what period of literature? - 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 - Answer- 1. Entidad maligna ominosa 2. Que invade y se apropia del espacio de la casa familiar 3. Personajes apegados que huyen Who exemplified existencialismo? - Answer- 1. Pablo Neruda (Walking Around), 2. Miguel De Unamuno (San Miguel bueno, mártir) What is existencialismo? - Answer- 1. Humans exist first 2. Human spends lifetime changing their nature. 2. Finding self and the meaning of life a poetic form combining verses of 7 and 11 syllables. Ex: The Dream by Sor Juana de la Cruz - Answer- silva Who wrote Chac Mool - Answer- Carlos Fuentes Who exemplified costumbrismo? - Answer- Pardo Bazán Who exemplified culteranismo? - Answer- Luis de Góngora Who exemplified conceptismo? (del Barroco) - Answer- Francisco de Quevedo retruécano - Answer- juegos de palabras; inversión de los terminos de la clausula o proposicion en otra subsiguiente e.x.: El momento es eterno. La eternidad es momentánea. ("Mi caballo mago") -Sabine Ulibarrí ambiente (ambience) - Answer- 1. La sensacion que el lector debe percibit del texto. El medio en el que mueven a los personajes. Ejemplo: Un ambiente opresivo y violento rodea a la joven Ildara en un pueblo pequeño de Galicia, una región del noroeste de España, a finales del siglo XIX. "Las medias rojas" (Emilia Pardo Bazán) Ricardo Jaimes Freyre Where was he from? - Answer- Bolivia Ricardo Jaimes Freyre, What style influenced? - Answer- Symbolist-influenced verse the development of Latin American MODERNISM!! Ricardo Jaimes Freyre Who did he collaborate with? - Answer- Rubén Darío on Revista de América. What were the two schools of poetic thought during the Renaissance? () - Answer- 1. Salmantine: Concise and realistic 2 Sevillan: Complex and grandiloquent (extravagant in language, style,) Much of Renaissance literature had to do with what topic? () What was popular during this period? - Answer- 1) Christianity 2) Romantic thought 3) CARPE DIEM! Picaresque novel was also popular What is hemistitch/ hemistiquio? - Answer- sola frase a la mitad o fragmento de un verso (Arte mayor). Ejemplo: Ha muchos años - que busco el yermo, ha muchos años - que vivo triste, ha muchos años - que estoy enfermo, ¡y es por el libro que tú escribiste! Ejemplo 2: Pero que es leer - sí no tengo ojos Para que soñar - sí no tengo ilusión Para qué correr - sí no tengo camino Para que vivir - sin tus labios rojos Para que jugar - si tengo confusión Para que seguir - si no tengo destino What is verso suelto? - Answer- Poetry with loose rhyme structure. Verso blanco Describe the setting for the Renaissance (). - Answer- Conflict between Spain and Italy. A Julia de Burgos is a work from what literary movement? - Answer- Postmodernism All of these authors exemplify which literary movement?: Julia de Burgos Gabriela Mistral, Alfonsina Storni, Juan Ramón Jiménez, José Martí, Rubén Darío and others - Answer- Modernism (Modernism) This literary movement employs a: - Answer- RICH VERBAL MUSICALITY to express passions, visions, rhythms, and interior harmonies. What other movements did modernism influence? (3) - Answer- FRENCH ROMANTICISM, PARNASSIANISM SYMBOLISM What inspired modernism? - Answer- French Romanticism What did modernism rebel against? - Answer- 1. Aristocratic 2. Beauty 3. Changed metrics 4. Spiritual Expression 5. Literary Crisis - end of 19th Cent Who was the most famous Bourbon in Spain? Who did this person designate as his successor? - Answer- Carlos II of Spain He designated Felipe V __________ became king in 1700 and started the war of Spanish Succession - Answer- Carlos V What is the House of Bourbons? What impact did the Bourbons have? - Answer- European royal house w/ French origins Impact in Spain and their colonies in the New World. Describe Francisco Franco (Who did he lead a campaign against? Who did he defeat?) - Answer- 1. Against Republican govt in 1934 &divided Spain btwn rightists & leftists. 2. =Spanish civil war 3.Defeated Republicans Describe Magical Realism (mid 20th Century) - Answer- 1. Surreal 2. Strange 3. Common Who is Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer? - Answer- 1. Spanish post-romanticist poet 2. Playwright 3. Columnist: Known for the Rhymes and the Legends Gustavo Adolfo Becquer Year: - Answer- fiction (ficción) - Answer- Obras literarias que presentan acontecimientos y personajes imaginarios. Ejemplos: Don Quijote de la Mancha (Miguel de Cervantes), "Dos palabras" (Isabel Allende), "Borges y yo" (Jorge Luis Borges), etc What are Borges' best known works? - Answer- 1. Ficciones 2. El Aleph, 1940s= short stories interconnected including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion. To which genre did Borges contribute/influence? - Answer- 1. philosophical literature & fantasy. 2. magical realism and naturalism of the 19th century, Who was Jorge Luis Borges ? - Answer- 1. Argentine 2. Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, 3. Key figure in Spanish-Lang/Lit Jorge Luis Borges Year: - Answer- () Key industries in Mexico include... - Answer- Agriculture Industry Tourism Mining During what 3 year period did the Spanish conquer the Aztecs? - Answer- Mexico declared its independence from Spain in - Answer- 1810 In Pre-Columbian Times, who inhabited Mexico? - Answer- North - Chimichecas Center - Aztecs South (Yucatan) - Mayans Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra wrote: - Answer- Don Quijote de la mancha Alonso Quijano is the "real" name of this character... - Answer- Don Quijote. Alonso-old man- crazy after reading many chivalric novels & he becomes Don Quijote, a traveling knight. Latin American literature witnessed the onset of chronicles as a result of which event? - Answer- arrival of the Spaniards in the New World Julio Cortázar (Who was he? When did he live? Where is he from? What movement did he found? Who did he influence? Most notable work?) - Answer- 1. Argentine 2. Novelist, short story writer, and essayist. 3. . 4. Founders of LA Boom. 5. Work: Hopscotch Rubén Darío (when was he born? what style did he found? What does his work expose? MOST popular work? - Answer- 1. Nicaraguan 2. Founder of Modernism 3. Society vs. Artist 4. Works: EL Rey Burgues (1888)/ Azul - Social problems/materialism Rubén Darío What was the effect of his works on Hispanoamerica? - Answer- 1. Style ->into modernism. STYLE: REBELLIOUS, INCORPORATES Hispanic traditions, SENSUAL, PLURAL, (sincreticismo), FIGHTING with ITSELF. maniqueísmo - Answer- Religión universalista por el sabio Mani Sor Juana de la Cruz - Answer- 1. 2. Baroque 3. Sor Juana lived during Mexico's: - Colonial period - Mexican literature - Golden Age. Carlos Fuentes wrote... - Answer- Writer of Chac Mool....Mexican writer Benito Pérez Galdós Best known for? Main goal? What did he write? What was reflected in this work?) - Answer- 1. Novelista, drama, cronicas 2. Main goal=Find & analyze origins of Spanish revolution Reflected: TIME OF CRISIS IN SPAIN. Garcilaso de la Vega - Answer- 1. Italian Renaissance 2. Verse/Poetic 3. Spain Themes Garcia Marquez -What Lit movements? - Answer- Latin American Boom, magic realism Facts of Federico Garcia Lorca - Answer- 1. Generación del 27 2. Tema de la muerte 3. Surealist Federico Garcia Lorca, In his works, he always offers a separate world with creations that oscillate between _________ and ___________. - Answer- Reality and Fantasy In Romancero Gitano (Lorca), The first three poems ('Romance de la luna, luna'; 'Preciosa y el aire'; 'Reyerta') talk about the confrontations between the gypsy world and several different mythical forces: in the first poem with death, represented by the moon; the second between desire and the masculine instinct, represented by the wind; in the third poem the confrontation is against the fights and violence of the gypsies. These poems belong to the themes of.... - Answer- Lyricism and women Garcia Lorca chooses to talk about the gypsies because he thinks they represent the Andalusian culture and customs in its ________ form. - Answer- purest "The __________ of Soledad Montoya is the root of the Andalusian people. It's not anguish, because__________ lets you smile, nor is it a blinding pain because it doesn't shed tears; it's an anxiety without an object, a profound love for nothing, a certainty that death is breathing behind the door" - Answer- sorrow (in Romancero Gitano) Andalusia: The Andalusia that Lorca shows through his works is that which can't be seen but felt: the ancient Andalusia, the Andalusia of the ________, the black sorrow, the occult. - Answer- Duende The 'Romancero Gitano' has many different characters, but they are not the typical characters (by this we mean people) but 'abstract' characters or topics like... - Answer- violence, death, love, etc. Romancero Gitano (Gypsy Ballads) is a book of poems by ____________ , published in 1928. It's made up of __ ballads revolving around the topic of the gypsy life style, culture and customs. The ballads reflect: - Answer- 1. Federico Garcia Lorca (his most famous book) 2. 18 3. The pains of the gypsy people who live in the margins of society and are constantly persecuted by the authorities, and the fight against them and their repressive laws. What did Federico Garcia Lorca write? - Answer- Dramas: Bodas de sangre, Yerma, La casa de bernarda Alba Poetry: Libro de poemas, Canciones, MOST FAMOUS: Romancero gitano (gypsy) The largest Gothic Cathedral in the world, constructed in the 15th Century - Answer- The Catedral de Sevilla Constructed in 1328, this palace was the residence of King Alfonso XI. During the Reconquest, it housed the Catholic Kings including Isabella y Ferdinand - Answer- El Alcazar de los Reyes Cristianos en Córdoba Also known as the Monastery of San Lorenzo the Royal of Escorial, this is a famous palace in Spain that was constructed by King Phillip(Felipe II) at the end of the 16th Century. It was built in a style called desornamentado (undressed) - Answer- El Escorial a museum in Madrid that is famous for its neoclassical architecture and for housing many famous works of art - Answer- El Prado Using more words than necessary to say something. (As in Lorca's "lo lleva codo a codo" from Romancero Gitano) - Answer- périfrasis/retórico Federico Garcia Lorca was a member of which group? - Answer- Generation of 27 The genre in which a real-life-like situation is invaded by something too strange to believe - Answer- Magical Realism Magical Realism was born in: - Answer- Colombia Marti is referred to: - Answer- the Apostle of Cuban Independence José Marti wrote in what style? - Answer- modernism José Marti wrote in what style? What books did he write (most famous)? - Answer- MOST FAMOUS NOVEL: Amistad Funesta What are some central themes of Gabriela Mistral's poems? - Answer- Nature, betrayal, love, a mother's love, sorrow and recovery, travel, and Latin American Facts of Gabriela Mistral - Answer- A female Chilean poet-diplomat, educator and humanist. What award did Octavio Paz win in 1990? - Answer- Nobel Prize for literature in 1990. What concepts did Octavio Paz focus on? - Answer- Loneliness and existential restlessness. Who was Octavio Paz? - Answer- Was a Mexican poet, essayist, and diplomat who wrote from . Octavio Paz. He can be classified neither as an _________ nor as a ________ symbolist because his way of writing was very unique. The literary movements he belonged to were: - Answer- Neither symbolist nor idealist. Horacio Quiroga - Answer- 1. Uruguay 2. Wrote: jungle settings, use supernatural and bizarre to show struggle of man and animal to survive. 3. He owed to Edward Allan Poe 4. Iinfluence in LA w/ magic realism of Gabriel García Márquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortázar. Miguel de Unamuno (What group did he belong to? - Answer- Author from Gen98. Miguel de Unamuno What was his main message? - Answer- ABANDON ITS TRADITIONS&integrate w/ Europe Describe El libro de Buen Amor. Who wrote it? When? - Answer- Describe El libro de Buen Amor. Who wrote it? When? - Answer- Considered to be one of the masterpieces of Spanish poetry, is a semi-biographical account of romantic adventures by Juan Ruiz, the Archpriest of Hita 1343 Mester de clerecía. The Book of Good Love includes different genres such as: - Answer- narrative, lyric, and didactic The Book of Good Love is famous for its variety of: - Answer- love stories, traditional bucolic poems, fables, lyrical compositions, etc. 2. the cuaderna vía, sixteen syllabic verses, zéjel stanzas, etc us, festive, religious, profane, etc. The Book of Good Love explains how men must be careful about ________ - Answer- Love that can be Good (el buen amor) or F