Spanish CSET Subtest 2 questions and solutions

Spanish CSET Subtest 2 questions and solutions
Greater Antillies - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico
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Panama Capital & currency - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Ciudad de Panama, Balboa
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Dominican Republic - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Island of Santo Domingo n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n,




Agriculture: sugarcane n,




Capital is Santo Domingo n, n, n,




$ - Domincan Peso
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Cuba - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Capital is Havana, last Spanish Colony in the new world, $ Peso
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Dictator: Fidel Castro n, n,




Puerto Rico - Correct Answer ✔✔ - unincorporated US,
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Capital - San Juan n, n, n,




Us Dollar n,




Guatemala - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Ciudad de Guatemala n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n,




Agriculture: coffee sugarcane, bananas, n, n, n,




Currency: Quetzal n,




Capital: Cuidad de Guatemala n, n, n,




El Salvador - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Smallest country in Central America
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Capital: San Salvador n, n,




Civil War n,




Coffee
Currency: Colon n,




Costa Rica - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Capital: San Jose
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Currency: Colones n,




Agriculture: pinapples, cocoa n, n,




South American Countries that speak Spanish - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay
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Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru
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Non Spanish Speaking Countries in South America - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Guyana, Surnam, Trinidad and Tobago
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Brazil
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Central America - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
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Spanish Armada - Correct Answer ✔✔ - fleet of ships, very strong but was defeated by Queen Eliz I This started the
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defeat of the Spanish Empire
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Bourbons - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Big influence in Europe n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n,




Carlos II de espana hasta Felipe V n, n, n, n, n, n,

,Miguel de Unamuno - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Spanish author - generation of 98. These artists affected by moral,
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political and social crisis in Spain. Their message was that Spain needed to abandon its traditions and integrate into
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Europe
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Inquisition - Correct Answer ✔✔ - purpose was to discover and punish heretics and crimes against blasphemy,
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bigamy and forbidden books .
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Aboloished in 1843 n, n,




General Francisco Franco - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Spanish dictator 1936-1939, defeated the republic and made spa
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and absolute dictatorship until his death in 1975
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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - Correct Answer ✔✔ - President of Argentina 1868-1874
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Writer and politicial
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Horacio Quiroga - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Uruguay, writer influenced by Edgar Alan Poe
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Mexico - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Estados Unidos de Mexico
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Aztecs, Mayans, Chimichecas,
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Agriculture mining n,




Tourism

Nicaragua - Correct Answer ✔✔ - The first state to declare its independence
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Cotton, sugar, banana n, n,




Capital- Managua n,




Currrency-Cordoba

Ecuador - Correct Answer ✔✔ - 1527 was discovered by the Spaniards
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Cap: Quiton,




Currency: Us $ n, n,




Economy: agriculture-bananas n,




Colombia - Correct Answer ✔✔ - South America, South of Panama, It starts the continent of South America.
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Spanish colonized it and called it "nueva granada"
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Economy: agriculture (coffee, corn, rice) n, n, n, n,




Uruguay - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Established as a state in 1825
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Cap: Montevideo
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Currency: Uruguayan peso n, n,




Venezuela - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Cap: Caracas n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n,




Currency: Bolivar n,




Cocoa
1811 Declared its independence
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Argentina - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Stayed under spanish until 1816, Andes Mts,
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Cap Buenos Aires
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Peso
Livestock and oil n, n,

,Paraguay - Correct Answer ✔✔ - A river divides it East and West, No sea access, Fought against Spain and
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Argentina
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2 languages: Spanish and Guarani
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Capital Asuncion n,




$ Guarani n,




Bolivia - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Part of South America, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n,




Capital: La Paz n, n,




Silver mines n,




Three languages: Spanish, Quechua, Aymara n, n, n, n,




Peru - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Borders the pacific ocean
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Andes
Machu Pichu n,




Cap: Lima n,




Currency: Sol n,




Agriculture
Languages: Spanish and Quechua n, n, n,




Celia Cruz - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Cantante Cubana n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n,




Salsera n,




Salsa Queen n,




Fernando Botero - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Boterismo n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n,




Colombia
pintor, matador, n,




exaggerates volumes n,




Placido Domingo - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Spanish Opera Singer n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n,




Educated in Mexico n, n,




Frida Kahlo - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Mexican painter n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n,




bright colors n,




Influence by surrealism n, n,




married to Diego Rivera n, n, n,




Ernesto Sabato - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Argentina n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n,




Writer/painter
El Tunel n,




Diego Velazquez - Correct Answer ✔✔ - 17th c n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n,




portraits
"Las Meninas" n, n,




Influenced Dali & Picasso n, n, n,




Spanish Architecture - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Roman influence n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n,




Moorish
Romanesque/Gothic
Gaudi