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Who Said It?
Culture in Latin America
Magical Realism
100
Who Said, "Magical Realism runs through our Streets?"

a) Gabriel Garcia Marquez

b) Jorge Luis Borges

c) Sandra Cisneros

a) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
100
In Latin America, magical realism describes the matter-of-fact combination of the fantastic magical sense and the ____________.

a) everyday

b) universe

c) student life at NDA

a) everyday
100
Some texts describe America as a marvelous, fantastic, and miraculous world. As we have seen, the ordinary world appeared _________.

a) fancy yet ordinary

b) gross and distasteful

c)mystical and magical

c) mystical and magical
200
Who Said, "Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. There are elements of magical realism in every culture, everywhere. It's just accepting that we don't know everything and everything is possible."

a) Laura Esquivel

b) Jorge Luis Borges

c) Isabel Allende

c) Isabel Allende
200

In Latin American culture, there is a lot of storytelling between ____________

a) verisimilitude and myth


b) realism and romance


c) factuality and fabulation


d) All of the above

d) all of the above
200
Magical Realism has now become the standard name for a major trend in _____________. 

a) contemporary fiction

b) drama

c) non-fiction

a) contemporary fiction
300
Who said, "What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me."

a) Gabriel Garcia Marquez

b) Laura Esquivel

c) Sandra Cisneros

b) Laura Esquivel
300
Magical Realism became prominent in Latin America in the mid ____ century. 

a) 19th

b) 20th

c) 17th

b) 20th
300
Which is an example of magical realism:

a) Clotilde was constantly giving the Vicar brothers alcohol so that they wouldn't attempt to murder Santiago

b) Widower Xius' late wife returning to take back trinkets from her home

c) How no one saw the letter that was given to the Nasar's under their door

b) Widower Xius' late wife returning to take back trinkets from her home



400
Who said, "Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."

a) Jorge Luis Borges

b) Isabel Allende

c) Sandra Cisneros

a) Jorge Luis Borges
400
In Latin America in the 1940s, magical realism was a way to express the realistic _________ mentality and create an autonomous style of literature.

a) Chinese

b)American

c) Brazilian

b) American
500
Who said, "In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for 12 hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind."

a) Gabriel Garcia Marquez

b) Laura Esquivel

c) Sandra Cisneros

c) Sandra Cisneros