These are the answers to the questions on the quiz given the final day of the course…
- Who wrote the novel Hopscotch? Answer: Julio Cortázar
- Who are the five Nobel prizewinners we have read? Answer: Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel García Márquez, Rigoberta Menchú (for peace), Mario Vargas Llosa
- What was the name of Mama Blanca’s bossy older sister? Answer: Violeta
- What did Pierre Menard do? Answer: He wrote the Quixote.
- What was the distinctive physical characteristic of the last of the Buendías? Answer: He had the tail of a pig.
- How did Rigoberta Menchú’s father die? Answer: In a fire at the Spanish Embassy
- What was the drinks pairing for the introductory lecture? Answer: Margarita
- What was the drinks pairing for the concluding lecture? Answer: Negroni Sbagliato
- What would you find hanging from the trees of an island in Mexico City? Answer: Dolls
- Who is the best writer of twentieth-century Latin America? Answer: Jorge Luis Borges!