Gabriel García Márquez
What is Gabriel García Márquez's last name?
García Márquez
What coast of Colombia is the novel set in?
Caribbean Coast
What is the term for "an exaggerated masculinity"?
Machismo
In what region of Colombia did the Arab immigrants settle?
Caribbean region
Who are the two prominent parties in Colombian politics?
Liberals and Conservatives
Where was Gabriel García Márquez born?
Aracataca, Colombia
What is the capital of Colombia?
Bogotá
What percentage of the Colombia population is Roman Catholic?
80%
What were the three main countries that immigrants came from as a result of the Arab diaspora to reach the Americans?
Lebanon, Syria, Palestine
Which party held control before La Violencia?
Liberal
What types of literature did Gabriel García Márquez write?
In what department did the murder that the novel is based on take place?
Sucre
What percentage of marriages in Colombia are child marriages?
24%
What was the name of the Arab family member of Santiago Nasar?
Ibrahim Nasar
Over what years did La Violencia occur?
1948-1964
What novel earned Gabriel García Márquez the Nobel Prize in Literature?
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Why is the Caribbean Coast valuable to Colombia?
Economy: important ports, advantageous weather and features
What percentage of marriages in Colombia involve domestic violence?
What were the two main religions of Arab immigrants who came to Colombia?
Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic
What does FARC stand for?
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia)
How were the effects of Civil War present in Gabriel García Márquez's life?
His grandfather was a Colonel in the Civil War
Name two of the three important Colombian ports located on the Caribbean Coast.
Santa Marta, Cartagena, Barranquilla
Who says this "love can be learned too"?
Purisima (Angela's mother)
Despite their urge to create a ‘unified Arab state’ how was the Ottoman Empire divided?
They were partitioned to England and France to be made into ‘mandate territories’
What was the name of the Liberal part member who was assassinated in Bogotá?
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán