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Quiz by Saddleback ARC, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Saddleback ARC
over 6 years ago
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Question 1
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What was the genre of the stories that Gabriel García Márquez wrote?
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biography
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historical fiction
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science fiction
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magical realism
Question 2
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How does this text describe García Márquez’s writing?
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It describes his writing as mostly realistic.
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It describes his writing as combining the real with the fantastic.
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It describes his writing as difficult to read.
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It describes his writing as completely magical.
Question 3
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Read these sentences from the text.
"Like all fiction, [magical realism] does not tell stories that happened in real life. Instead, this genre mixes realistic stories with fantasy."
What might the word “fantasy” mean based on these sentences?
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something that is very much like real life
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something that is made-up or imagined
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something that describes a person
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something that is based on history
Question 4
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What is an example of something fantastic or magical that García Márquez included in his stories?
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The setting of a book is in a fictional town like where García Márquez grew up.
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The main character in one book was a colonel in the army.
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In one of his books, tiny yellow flowers rain down from the sky.
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Many of García Márquez’s stories are set during a violent time.
Question 5
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What is the main if the idea of the text?
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The author Gabriel García Márquez combined pieces of real life with fantasy to create stories in the genre of magical realism.
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One of the first authors to bring magical realism to a huge audience was an author from Colombia named Gabriel García Márquez.
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Magical realism is a genre of fiction writing in which realistic stories are combined with fantasy.
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Some of Gabriel García Márquez's books are inspired by the history of Latin America and a violent time that happened in Colombia.
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