CSET Spanish Subtest 2 questions and solutions
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 coco
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? - Correc
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 t
Catholic religion, that has occurred since colonial times. In Brazil or Colombia, Catholicism was mixed with certai
_________ 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 w
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
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 coco
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? - Correc
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 t
Catholic religion, that has occurred since colonial times. In Brazil or Colombia, Catholicism was mixed with certai
_________ 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 w
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
