Mid-Term Exam.................... Home

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Instructions: click on the person you think corresponds to the citation. If you are correct, you will move to the next one. If you need help click on the "Hint" box. There are 48 citations.

Possible authors: // Anonymous Mayas (Popol Vuh, Chilam Balam) // Nezahualcoyotl (Poetry) // Macuilxochitzin (Poetry) // Anonymous Aztecs (Poetry) // Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (Royal Commentaries of the Incas) // Christopher Columbus (Diary) // Hernán Cortés (Letters) // Bernal Díaz del Castillo (True History) // Guamán Poma de Ayala (New Chronicle) // Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (The Araucaniad) // Bartolomé de las Casas (Destruction of the Indies) // Juana Inés de la Cruz (Poetry; Reply to Sor Filotea) // Bernardo de Balbuena (Mexico's Grandeur) // Juan del Valle Caviedes (Poetry) // Tupac Amaru (Proclamation, Sentence) // Simón Bolívar (The Jamaica Letter) // José Joaquín de Olmedo (Junín Victory: Bolivar's Anthem) // Andrés Bello (The Castillian Language in America; The Agriculture of the Torrid Zone) // Domingo F. Sarmiento (Facundo) // Esteban Echeverría (The Slaughterhouse) // Jorge Isaacs (María) // Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (Poetry).

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Hint p.26 Correct. The next citation (#2) is:

The flowers were born

in the lush spring

under showering rays of the sun.

They are our heart, Oh Creator,

but they carry the sign of death,

they are born, they flourish and they die.