CSET Spanish Subtest 2 | 397 Questions with 100% Correct Answers | 30 Pages 2023

CSET Spanish Subtest 2 | 397 Questions with 100% Correct Answers | 30 Pages 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? 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 Answerun 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 Who exemplified existencialismo? - Correct Answer-1. Pablo Neruda (Walking Around), 2. Miguel De Unamuno (San Miguel bueno, mártir) What is existencialismo? - Correct 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 - Correct Answer-silva Who wrote Chac Mool - Correct Answer-Carlos Fuentes Who exemplified costumbrismo? - Correct Answer-Pardo Bazán Who exemplified culteranismo? - Correct Answer-Luis de Góngora Who exemplified conceptismo? (del Barroco) - Correct Answer-Francisco de Quevedo retruécano - Correct 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) - Correct 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? - Correct Answer-Bolivia Ricardo Jaimes Freyre, What style influenced? - Correct Answer-Symbolist-influenced verse the development of Latin American MODERNISM!! Ricardo Jaimes Freyre Who did he collaborate with? - Correct Answer-Rubén Darío on Revista de América. What were the two schools of poetic thought during the Renaissance? () - Correct 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? - Correct Answer-1) Christianity 2) Romantic thought 3) CARPE DIEM! Picaresque novel was also popular What is hemistitch/ hemistiquio? - Correct 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? - Correct Answer-Poetry with loose rhyme structure. Verso blanco Describe the setting for the Renaissance (). - Correct Answer-Conflict between Spain and Italy. A Julia de Burgos is a work from what literary movement? - Correct AnswerPostmodernism All of these authors exemplify which literary movement?: Julia de Burgos Gabriela Mistral, Alfonsina Storni, Juan Ramón Jiménez, José Martí, Rubén Darío and others - Correct Answer-Modernism (Modernism) This literary movement employs a: - Correct Answer-RICH VERBAL MUSICALITY to express passions, visions, rhythms, and interior harmonies. What other movements did modernism influence? (3) - Correct Answer-FRENCH ROMANTICISM, PARNASSIANISM SYMBOLISM What inspired modernism? - Correct Answer-French Romanticism What did modernism rebel against? - Correct 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? - Correct Answer-Carlos II of Spain He designated Felipe V __________ became king in 1700 and started the war of Spanish Succession - Correct Answer-Carlos V What is the House of Bourbons? What impact did the Bourbons have? - Correct 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?) - Correct 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) - Correct Answer-1. Surreal 2. Strange 3. Common Who is Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer? - Correct Answer-1. Spanish post-romanticist poet 2. Playwright 3. Columnist: Known for the Rhymes and the Legends Gustavo Adolfo Becquer Year: - Correct Answer- fiction (ficción) - Correct 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? - Correct 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? - Correct Answer-1. philosophical literature & fantasy. 2. magical realism and naturalism of the 19th century, Who was Jorge Luis Borges ? - Correct Answer-1. Argentine 2. Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, 3. Key figure in Spanish-Lang/Lit Jorge Luis Borges Year: - Correct Answer-() Key industries in Mexico include... - Correct Answer-Agriculture Industry Tourism Mining During what 3 year period did the Spanish conquer the Aztecs? - Correct Answer-1519- 1521 Mexico declared its independence from Spain in - Correct Answer-1810 In Pre-Columbian Times, who inhabited Mexico? - Correct Answer-North - Chimichecas Center - Aztecs South (Yucatan) - Mayans Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra wrote: - Correct Answer-Don Quijote de la mancha Alonso Quijano is the "real" name of this character... - Correct 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? - Correct 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?) - Correct 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? - Correct 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? - Correct Answer-1. Style ->into modernism. STYLE: REBELLIOUS, INCORPORATES Hispanic traditions, SENSUAL, PLURAL, (sincreticismo), FIGHTING with ITSELF. maniqueísmo - Correct Answer-Religión universalista por el sabio Mani Sor Juana de la Cruz - Correct Answer-1. 2. Baroque 3. Sor Juana lived during Mexico's: - Colonial period - Mexican literature - Golden Age. Carlos Fuentes wrote... - Correct 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?) - Correct Answer-1. Novelista, drama, cronicas 2. Main goal=Find & analyze origins of Spanish revolution Reflected: TIME OF CRISIS IN SPAIN. Garcilaso de la Vega - Correct Answer-1. Italian Renaissance 2. Verse/Poetic 3. Spain Themes Garcia Marquez -What Lit movements? - Correct Answer-Latin American Boom, magic realism Facts of Federico Garcia Lorca - Correct 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 ___________. - Correct 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.... - Correct 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. - Correct 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" - Correct 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. - Correct 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... - Correct 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: - Correct 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? - Correct 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 - Correct Answer-The Catedral de Sevilla