Miscellaneous
Countries
Stories
Famous People
Magical Realism
100
This is the official language of Brazil
What is Portuguese?
100
The country that Professor Bobby loves the most!
What is Costa Rica
100
This story is unique in the fact that it is told backwards.
What is "Journey Back to the Source"?
100
This person was credited with discovering the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
In "Fray Gómez's Scorpion," this turns into a jeweled brooch.
What is a scorpion?
200
This country funded the Panama Canal Project.
What is the United State of America?
200
The majority of the video "Buena Vista Social Club" from class took place in this country.
What is Cuba?
200
In the short story "Encarnación Mendoza's Christmas Eve," this is delivered to the Mendoza family's doorstep.
Who is Encarnación Mendoza?
200
A famous Chilean Poet who is idolized in the film "Il Postino"
Who is Pablo Neruda?
200
In the short story "Sophie and the Angel," this animal magically walks on two legs and speaks with the main character.
What is a Cat?
300
Naturalism is a part of this this literary Movement.
What is Realism?
300
As shown in the documentary "Wetback," Latin American immigrants had the most difficult time traveling through this country.
What is Mexico?
300
In this short story, a man suspects, and is proven correct, that apes know how to speak but simply choose not to.
What is "Yzur"?
300
An Argentine communist revolutionary who helped Fidel Castro with the Cuban Revolution.
Who is Che Guevara?
300
In this short story, people are starving, so they start to eat themselves.
What is "Meat"?
400
The Treaty of Tordesillas split South America in two to appease these two countries.
What are Spain and Portugal?
400
This country is best known for its extravagant celebrations of Carnival.
What is Brazil?
400
This Author wrote stories that blurred the lines between dreams and reality.
Who is Julio Cortázar?
400
An explorer who became a priest as well as a defender for the rights of Native Americans.
Who is Bartolomé de las Casas?
400
In this story, adding the special ingredient of emotion into a meal resulted in the consumers also having that emotion.
What is "Like Water for Chocolate"?
500
A one-legged vampire woman.
What is Patasola
500
This country had two competing parties fighting for power, the Federalists and the Unitarians.
What is Argentina?
500
In "The Story of Pedro Serrano," this caused Pedro Serrano to be mistaken for the Devil... Twice.
What is a Full Pelt of Hair.
500
One of the most famous Latin American Authors, he wrote "Balthaza's Marvelous Afternoon"
Who is Gabriel García Márquez?
500
In this story, a woman reaches through a bowl of water to grab the sleeve of a dress in a separate land.
What is "A Deal with Juana García?"
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