Logo: Darío's princess

This is Lesson 16

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Multiple choice questions for the Lesson (click on the correct answer; if you are wrong, nothing happens; if you are right you will get a confirmation):

 

MC 16-1 (Lesson 16, page 154/4) Darío says that Roosevelt "opposes Tolstoy" because:

a. Roosevelt was anti-Communist

b. Tolstoy was a pacifist

c. Tolstoy was against hunting

d. Roosevelt was jealous of his writing ability

 

MC 16-2 (Lesson 16, page 152/3) Darío changed his name

a. because it seemed more exotic

b. several times

c. after Roosevelt took Panama

d. when his mother remarried

Short-answer questions for the Lesson. Instructions: If you are not sure about the answer and would like a hint, click on the figure labeled "Hint".

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HINT SA 1: Q1 150/4 What was art like at the end of the Century?

HINT SA 2: Q2 151/4 & 152/3 Why was the swan a favorite symbol of the Modernists?

HINT SA 3: Q3 152/3, 4 & 153/1 What do we know about Darío's life?

HINT SA 4: Q4 154/2 What attitude towards the United States can we see in Darío's poem "To Roosevelt"?

HINT SA 5: Q5 155/3 Why is Dario's "Queen Mab's Veil" considered "precious" (a Modernist trait)?

HINT SA 6: Q6 157/3 Describe the princess in Darío's "Sonatina".

HINT SA 7: Q7 150/1 & 3 What was Latin America like at the end of the 19th Century?

HINT SA 8: Q8 151/3 What was new about Modernism?

HINT SA 9: Q9 151/4 What were the principal foundations of Modernism?

HINT SA 10: Q10 153/poem What attitude towards the United States can we see in Darío's poem "Walt Whitman"?

HINT SA 11: Q11 154/4 What does Darío mean when he says "You are a professor of energy"?

HINT SA 12: Q12 151/1 Describe the influence of Posada's "calaveras" (skull and skeleton drawings).

HINT SA 13: Q13 152/2 What was the political side of Modernism?

HINT SA 14: Q14 154/6 In Dario's poem "To Roosevelt", what is the meaning of the phrase "you join the cult of Hercules with that of Mammon"?

HINT SA 15: Q15 157/2 &3 What is Queen Mab's solution to the men's unhappiness?