VIEWPOINT |
Test Yourself on Mexican facts - Part II
By Harriet Cochran Murrray - Cochran Real Estate - December 2005 |
ART:
1. Diego Rivera was best known for what art form:
a. portraiture b. mural c. sculpture d. mobiles
2. Rivera’s wife was later well known as:
a. an artist b. a poet c. a politician d. a writer of historical fiction
3. Octavio Paz was a well-known:
a. labor leader b. financier c. politician d. writer
4. The Indian artist using beads on an overlay of wax over a wooden form is:
a. Cora b. Mayan c. Aztec d. Huichol
5. Pre-Columbian artifacts are found in which areas of Mexico named below:
a. Sonora b. Chiapas c. Jalisco/Nayarit d. Guerrero e. All
MUSIC:
1. The current popular music of ballads is called:
a. ranchera b. corrido c. romantic d. bailen
2. What dance is also known as the Mexican Hat Dance?
a. “La Macarena” b. “La Bomba” c. “El Jarabe Tapatio”
3. An appropriate song to ask a Mariachi group to play would be:
a. “Sabor A Mi” b. “El Rey” c. “Feelings” d. “La bamba”
4. “El Jarabe Tapatio” is probably the most popular secular folk dance from the state of:
a. Veracruz b. San Luis Potosi c. Puebla d. Jalisco
5. The Grammy award winning musician Carlos Santana is originally from the state of:
a. Oaxaca b. Hidalgo c. Jalisco d. Chihuahua
FOOD AND DRINK
1. Which food is not part of the three most important
basic foods coming out of Mesoamerica:
a. maiz b. squash c. cabrito d. frijoles
2. Which distilled liquor is made from 100% blue agave:
a. pulque b. mezcal c. tequila c. agua fresca
3. A tin, iron or ceramic griddle is call a:
a. metate b. molino c. comal d. nixtamal
4. A well-known Mexican custard dessert is:
a. flan b. dulce c. galleta d. torta
5. A well-known drink from Oaxaca with a worm in the bottle is:
a. tequila b. mezcal c. bebidas embotelladas d. agua purificada
GOVERNMENT
1. The President of Mexico serves one term of:
a. three years b. four years. c. five years d. six years
2. Mexican’s official name is:
a. El gobierno b. Associacion de Mexican Estados
c. Los Estados Unidos de Mexicanos d. Distrito Federal
3. Well-known political parties in the country except for one named below are:
a. PAN b. PRI c. PRD d. NAFTA
4. One of the most powerful juridical instruments is the writ which can be
invoked for protection by a citizen against the government. It is called:
a. fidecomiso b. amparo c. la cámara de senadores d. predial
5. The Mexican legal system is based on:
a. Anglo Saxon common law b. Teutonic viking law
c. Spanish civil law and common law d. Tramite law
HISTORY
1. Cortez’s mistress was Malinali. History remembers her to this day
and age as the original malinchista:
a. Teacher to the Spanish b. Queen to the Mestizos
c. Betrayor of her people d. Healer to the Mexican and Spanish
2. The legend of the Aztec search for a home was to find:
a. A mountain top on the east coast of Mexico
b. A place by water where an eagle sitting on a cactus is devouring a snake
c. The famous Grijalva River in what is now Tabasco
d. Aztlan, the place of the heron
3. The symbol for the first U.S.dollar used by Thomas Jefferson came from the:
a. Mexican pieces of eight b. French doubloons
c. Roman coins d. Cedulas reales
4. Quetzalcoatl is the:
a. Feathered Serpent god b. God of the sun and war
c. Another form of Montezuma d. Nahua god of the Aztecs
5. The current Mexican constitution in effect was created in:
a. l942 b. l994 c. l917 d. l865
Answers
ART: 1.(b), 2.(a), 3.(d), 4.(d), 5.(e)
MUSIC: 1.(b), 2.(c), 3.(b), 4.(d), 5.(c)
FOOD AND DRINK: 1.(c), 2.(c), 3.(c), 4.(a), 5.(b)
GOVERNMENT: 1.(d), 2.(c), 3.(d), 4.(b), 5.(c)
HISTORY: 1.(c), 2.(b), 3.(a), 4.(a), 5.(c)
Harriet Cochran Murray - Cochran Real Estate
E-mail:harriet@casasandvillas.com
For additional information on properties, for sale or lease within the bay please visit Harriet Murray Website, call or e-mail me at: harriet@pvnet.com.mx
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