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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. Where did Isabel die?
(a) Salamanca
(b) Madrigal
(c) Tordesillas
(d) Madrid

3. What caused the decline of the University of Salamanca?
(a) lack of qualified teachers
(b) lack of students
(c) it was closed by Isabel
(d) it became basically a finishing school for the nobility

4. What did Isabel do as she moved from place to place?
(a) carried the remains of her husband with her
(b) demanded tax money
(c) established herself as regent
(d) bore illigitimate children

5. When Michener returned to the village of San Augustin, he found all but the following:
(a) an automobile
(b) prosperity
(c) television antennas
(d) electricity

6. The patron saint of Spain is:
(a) St. Juan
(b) St. Teresa
(c) St. Augustin
(d) St. James

7. The wealthiest shrine in Christendom is at:
(a) Fatima
(b) Grenada
(c) Lourdes
(d) Guadeloupe

8. Entremeses are:
(a) a hotel in Teruel
(b) a monastery
(c) a selection of different foods served in saucers
(d) an area in the mountains

9. According to Michener, the men from Andalucia who migrate to Barcelona stay there because:
(a) better living conditions
(b) they have hope
(c) they find a better life
(d) they find good jobs

10. The bulls that give the best fight are from:
(a) Catalona
(b) Mexico
(c) the south of Spain
(d) Wisconsin

11. The Catalan separatists want all but the following:
(a) their own language
(b) their own univeristies
(c) their own newspapers
(d) a separate state

12. Who walks into the Bar Txoco when Michener is there?
(a) President Zaomoa
(b) Generalisimo France
(c) Ernest Hemingway
(d) Prince Juan Carlos

13. The saint worshiped at Avila is:
(a) Sebastian
(b) Teresa
(c) Fancis
(d) Isabel

14. Who were the Suecas?
(a) a singing group
(b) Fins, Norwegians, Danes and Germans
(c) strolling ministrals
(d) a slamenco group

15. The colors of the cape are:
(a) red and blue
(b) the colors of the bull ring
(c) magenta and yellow
(d) the colors of the matador

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shows Michener around Teruel?

2. Michener describes Spain as a:

3. Michener had first been to Madrid in:

4. The highlight of the feast of San Fermin is the:

5. According to tradition, the Apostle James:

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