CSET Spanish Subtest with answers

CSET Spanish Subtest 2 Pre-columbian literature - Correct Answer-Before conquest, primarily oral and codices, Some beliefs recorded by European colonizers (ex Popol Vuh) Cantar el Mio Cid - Correct Answer-Epic poem, 1140ish, real man—his battles, conquests, and daily life fighting in the Reconquista, nothing exaggerated, real geography, 3 cantos Alfonso X El Sabio - Correct Answer-Rey de Castilla y León in 1200s. Big on learning. Tradujo los antiguos textos clásicos al español. Poeta. Father of Spanish prose Mester de clerecía (definition) - Correct Answer-1300s (Medieval), poems written on paper, not anonymous, with regular meter, and done by educated authors. Serious topics: religious, historical and novelesque Mester de juglaría (definition) - Correct Answer-1300s (Medieval) Poems written by minstrels. No set form, use assonance instead of rhyme and were recited to uneducated audiences. Mester de clerecía (obra) - Correct Answer-El Libro del Buen Amor, Juan Ruiz, 1300s, love adventures of JR (moral and comical) Colonial literature (years, def, authors) - Correct Answer-During colonization of new world (late s), accounts of conquest, El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (Peru), Bartolomé de las Casas libros de caballerías - Correct Answer-Amadís de Gaula, Tirante el Blanco y Palmerín de Inglaterra 1492 - Correct Answer-End of Reconquista Colon's first arrival to Americas Publication of Antonio Nebrija's "Gramática de la lengua castellana", Start of Siglo de Oro El Siglo de Oro (years, definition) - Correct Answer-, Spain is a superpower, colonialism, enormous contributions to humanities (Velázquez, Cervantes, etc), spans most of Renaissance and Barroque periods La Celestina - Correct Answer-1499, Comedia de Calisto y Melibea, novel but written as a continuous series of dialogues, Bachelor, Calisto, uses the old procuress Celestina to start an affair with Melibea, an unmarried girl kept in seclusion. They use the rhetoric of