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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who walks into the Bar Txoco when Michener is there?
(a) Generalisimo France
(b) Prince Juan Carlos
(c) President Zaomoa
(d) Ernest Hemingway
2. In Spain:
(a) people prefer baseball to soccer
(b) there is no betting because of the church
(c) betting is illegal
(d) betting pools are popular on soccer
3. The bulls run a distance of:
(a) seventeen hundred yards
(b) one and one half miles
(c) nine nundred yards
(d) one mile
4. What is the major feast in Santiago de Compostella?
(a) the Feast of the Templars
(b) the Day of the Virgin
(c) the Day of St. James
(d) the Feast of Guadaloupe
5. Teruel had been the site of:
(a) a major battle in the Spanish Civil War
(b) the end of the Spanish Civil War
(c) a major strike
(d) a big festival
Short Answer Questions
1. The Day of St. James begins with a midnight:
2. Which group produces the fewest in Medical doctors in Catalonia?
3. The Spanish Civil War began in:
4. The bulls that give the best fight are from:
5. The river of Tudela, the Rio Ebro was:
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was Michener happy to make the pilgrimage to Compostella when he has made it before?
2. What is Michener's attitude toward bullfighting?
3. What does Michener say he tries to focus on in Iberia?
4. What is one of the things the Spanish town of Estrella is known for?
5. Why is there antagonism between Barcelona and Madrid?
6. Why was Teruel of personal interest to Michener?
7. Where does the world Iberia come from?
8. What is the sardona?
9. What is the cuadrilla?
10. How does a Spaniard defend bullfighting when Americans call it barbaric?
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