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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. Which of the following is not one of Michener's reasons for going to the Pamploma region?
(a) to study the cathedral of Pamplona
(b) to see Tudela
(c) to picnic in the Pass of Roncasvalles
(d) to interview Ernest Hemingway

2. What is the name of the square that Michener feels is the finest in Spain and one of the best in the world?
(a) Salamanca's Plaza Mayor
(b) Zocalo
(c) St. Marks
(d) St. Teresas

3. What form of entertainment did the Micheners enjoy so much in Barcelona?
(a) opera
(b) going to bars
(c) flamenco
(d) soccer

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The onset of the running of the bulls is signaled by:

2. What is significant about Estrella?

3. What does Michener say of Portugal?

4. Michener found Madrid newspapers to:

5. Michener had first visited Teruel:

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Michener's views on Portugal?

2. What caused the decline of the University of Salamanca?

3. What was the Spanish Inquisition?

4. How do the Spanish acquire apartments in the seacoast areas?

5. What is Michener's attitude toward bullfighting?

6. Why is there antagonism between Barcelona and Madrid?

7. What did Michener think of his experience in Castielfabib?

8. How had the small town of Teruel become significant in the Spanish Civil War?

9. Why was Michener happy to make the pilgrimage to Compostella when he has made it before?

10. What does Michener say that Arevalo is renowned for?

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