Humanities Homework Help

UESTION 1

1. Latino cultures incorporate a long, rich tradition of storytelling. Examples of this tradition are present in the reading

   		The Angel Juan Moncho
   		Tales under the Mango Tree
   		All of the above

10 points

QUESTION 2

1. Some writers focus on a form particular but not unique to Latino culture (machismo). Works on the role of color, poverty, lack of education, fall into this category. One reading that is focused on that problem is

   		Nilda
   		Borinkins in Hawaii
   		Familia

10 points

QUESTION 3

1. Language and bilingualism is an issue for Latino communities and writers in the United States; debates rage about the value of voice and the legal status of language. Bilingualism is treated in a very funny way by the following writer

   		Josefina Báez
   		Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
   		Lydia Cabrera

10 points

QUESTION 4

1. A number of Latino writers deal with images of Latinos/as to analyze and explore the role of stereotypes. We can find examples in the reading

   		The Greatest Performance
   		Eva and Daniel
   		The Account

10 points

QUESTION 5

1. One of the following authors, through her artistic work (performance, dance, and poetry), constructs a complicated portrait of Dominican women in Diaspora.

   		Judith Ortiz Cofer
   		Sandra Cisneros
   		Josefina Báez

10 points

QUESTION 6

1. The poet Gustavo Perez Firmat belongs to one of these generations

   		Born in Cuba but made in the U.S.A
   		Born in Cuba, made in Cuba
   		Born and made in the U.S.A

10 points

QUESTION 7

1. Nuyorican poetic discourse is based on

   		Standard written modes of language
   		Popular and colloquial phrases
   		Assimilation discourse

10 points

QUESTION 8

1. The ethnic style of Puerto Rican poets in the United States is represented by

   		Music
   		Poetry
   		Both music and poetry

10 points

QUESTION 9

1. What exactly means the idea of “tropicalization” of American poetry developed by Nuyorican poets such as Victor Hernandez Cruz?

   		The poet writes the poem in Spanish
   		The poet imitates the tropicalizing efforts of Hollywood and the mass media
   		The poet recreates a Latino imagery in English

10 points

QUESTION 10

1. Code switching may be used in Latino Poetry as

   		A representation of the language used by the speech community
   		A literary strategy which makes the author more accessible to the reader/audience
   		All of the above

10 points

QUESTION 11

1. When a Latino poems contain keywords in Spanish that function as indices of specific Latino realities or cultural traditions such as barrio, Miami, Borinkeña, for example, the poem

   		does require a bilingual readership
   		does pressupose a Spanish monolingual readership
   		does not pressupose a bilingual readership

10 points

QUESTION 12

1. When a Latino poem constantly switches between languages in order to relate to his or her bilingual constituency of readers, as some kind of secret code for those communally initiated, so the poem

   		does require a bilingual readership
   		does pressupose a Spanish monolingual readership
   		does not pressupose a bilingual readership

10 points

QUESTION 13

1. The term Nuyorican was born

   		In the 1960s as a derogatory way to call Puerto Ricans in the United States
   		in the 1950s as a way to identify Puerto Ricans living in New York
   		in the 1970s as part of the politicization and specification of various ethnic, racial, and other populations historically subordinated by social category.

10 points

QUESTION 14

1. Nuyorican writers are not accepted as part of the Puerto Rican national heritage because of

   		Cultural nationalism issues
   		Linguistic nationalism issues
   		All of the above

10 points

QUESTION 15

1. Nuyorican writers write

   		Only in Spanish
   		Only in English
   		In both, English and Spanglish