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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Spanish royalty do with their illegitimate daughters?
(a) adopted them so they were legitimate
(b) had them killed
(c) treated them as equals
(d) placed them in convents at an early age

2. A complete bull fight consists of how many bulls?
(a) ten
(b) one
(c) six
(d) three

3. The site of the picnic at Roncesvalles is a significant site:
(a) of a Great Mosque
(b) in the Christians' fight against Islam
(c) in the Greek invasion of Spain
(d) in Franco's war against the Republicans

4. In Spain:
(a) people prefer baseball to soccer
(b) betting is illegal
(c) betting pools are popular on soccer
(d) there is no betting because of the church

5. When Michener meets Don Luis in Madrid, they discuss:
(a) art
(b) jai alai
(c) soccer
(d) Spain after Franco's death

6. In terms of publishing, what sells well?
(a) encyclopedias
(b) fiction
(c) non-fiction
(d) political books on Franco

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

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

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

10. Michener claims to have seen how many bullfights?
(a) 250
(b) 1000
(c) 500
(d) 700

11. The Way of St. James is:
(a) 100 miles
(b) 900 miles
(c) 250 miles
(d) 25 miles

12. Pamplona is preparing for the yearly feast of:
(a) Juan Carlos
(b) San Fermin
(c) Isabel
(d) Santa Teresa

13. The most popular matador was:
(a) Manolete
(b) El Cordobes
(c) Joselito
(d) Antonio Ordonet

14. Michener had first visited Teruel:
(a) three years earlier
(b) 34 years earlier
(c) during World War II
(d) in 1939

15. From whom does Michener learn the history of Castielfabib?
(a) the mayor
(b) a priest
(c) a tour guide
(d) the innkeeper's family

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not one of Michener's reasons for going to the Pamploma region?

2. Benjamin of Tudela did all but the following:

3. According to tradition, the Apostle James:

4. What is significant about Estrella?

5. What is the major feast in Santiago de Compostella?

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