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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The festivities take place over a period of:
(a) one week
(b) three to five weeks
(c) ten days
(d) two weeks

2. The participants from each parish are referred to as a:
(a) group
(b) marchers
(c) assembly
(d) confraternity

3. What is the principle city in the Las Marismas area?
(a) Madrid
(b) Sanlucar
(c) Grenada
(d) Cordoba

4. Who invaded Cordoba in 711?
(a) the Moors
(b) the Visigoths
(c) the Goths
(d) the Romans

5. The Mozarabes:
(a) were pagans
(b) conquered Toledo
(c) developed their own style of Christian Mass
(d) were heretics

6. What does Michener learn of the young men of the village in Extremadura?
(a) they work as merchants in the town
(b) they work hard on their peasant plots
(c) they leave for Germany or Barcelona and send home money
(d) they work for their fathers

7. Which is not one of the four men whose birthplaces Michener wanted to see:
(a) Plato
(b) Maimonides
(c) Hosius
(d) Seneca

8. The terms Las Marismas means:
(a) the low lands
(b) the Tidelands
(c) wildlife
(d) bull ranch

9. In Castellon, what did the women throw from the balconies?
(a) handerkerchiefs
(b) oranges
(c) darts with streamers attached
(d) beads

10. Who is not one of the noble panopoly of four kings?
(a) Felipe
(b) Fernando
(c) Juana la Loca
(d) Juan Carlos

11. The time of Michener's visit is:
(a) the early 1960s
(b) the late 1940s
(c) the late 1950s
(d) the mid 1940s

12. Where does the freighter stop to pick up oranges?
(a) Castellian
(b) Burriana
(c) Valencia
(d) Mallorca

13. In addition to Badajoz, Michener visits all but which one of the following cities in the Extremadura:
(a) Merida
(b) Barcelona
(c) Trujillo
(d) Medellin

14. Michener wants to know about:
(a) the peasants
(b) the role of the Guardia Civil
(c) entertainment
(d) the daily routine of an average businessman

15. The club proprietor explains to Michener:
(a) why he is not welcome at the club
(b) that he should not ask questions
(c) there are no businessmen in Badajoz
(d) the tradition of Spanish names

Short Answer Questions

1. Michener describes the cathedral of Badajoz as:

2. The author describes Spain as:

3. In the Toledo cathedral, there is a memorial to:

4. Before leaving Valencia, who does the American meet?

5. In Grenada, Michener visited the:

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