CSET Spanish Subtest 2 Solved 100% Correct Latest Update 2024/2025

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