This is the ANSWER KEY to the textbook HONOUR OF KINGS SPANISH 2. This text can be purchased via our website at www.honourofkings.com. Honour of Kings Spanish II provides 20 weekly lessons, seven tests, and a final exam. This text reviews the basic concepts learned in Spanish I while also introducing new grammar concepts. Students will continue to build skills in fluency by following a logical, mastery approach to the language. Practice in reading, writing, vocabulary, and translation is included in the text. By the end of this second year of Spanish, students should be comfortable using the present, past, and future verb tenses along with other intermediate grammar concepts

La novela empieza con la boda de una de las víctimas del dictador. En el preámbulo, hay dos compadres que comparten sus manuscritos sobre la descripción de la Villa Dolorosa, sobre la aparición del Diario original de Cristóbal Colón, y sobre las predicciones apocalípticas de la isla; continúa con la descripción de la vida del párroco de la comunidad; le sigue la descripción del dictador de la Dolorosa; desde sus orígenes, sus trucos políticos, sus medidas represivas, las aventuras de los centauros, la extravagancia de su boda, su decadencia y su muerte. Paralelamente se desarrolla la vida del héroe, sus vicisitudes y luchas contra la dictadura. La novela continúa con la desesperación y éxodo de los moradores de la comunidad, y la destrucción de casi toda la isla por un gran tsunami. Finalmente, se cierra con un epílogo donde los dos compadres hacen un escrutinio sobre los libros escritos durante la dictadura.

After the Spanish-American War in 1898, many Filipinos immigrated to New York City, mostly as students, enrolling at local institutions like Columbia University and New York University. Some arrived via Ellis Island as early as 1915, while Filipino military servicemen and Navy seafarers settled in New York after both World Wars I and II. After the Asian Immigration Act of 1965, many Filipinos came as professionals (e.g., nurses, physicians, and engineers) and formed settlements in various ethnic enclaves throughout the five boroughs of New York. Over the years, Filipinos have contributed significantly to New York arts and culture through Broadway theater, fashion, music, film, comedy, hip-hop, poetry, and dance. Filipino New Yorkers have also been successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives, community leaders, and politicians, and some, sadly, were victims of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks.

La obra narra la historia que le cuenta Royd, un guerrero con muchas anécdotas, a su nieto, el día de su cumpleaños cuando le da como obsequio la espada de honor de un rey del pasado de Alvia, reino al que pertenecen en la actualidad. Ignorando la heroica hazaña de su abuelo, poco a poco descubrirá el sentido de la amistad y del honor en boca de éste. Acompaña a Royd a un viaje lleno de trepidantes aventuras, peligros, acción y batallas épicas por la libertad de los reinos del medallón de la alianza. Descripciones minuciosas, personajes magníficamente caracterizados y la ambientación de la obra la hacen una novela apasionante. Empleando un estilo ágil y sencillo, además de la temática de ficción, muy bien ambientada en la antigüedad, la hacen una novela fantástica para todos los amantes de este estilo de literatura.

Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005), winner of the prestigious Cervantes prize, is one of the most important Latin American writers of the twentieth century. This commemorative collection consists of articles by nine scholars reflecting upon the postmodern nature of the Paraguayan author s literary production and his place in world literature. The volume includes articles on the author s screenplays, his masterpiece, the dictator novel I The Supreme, his short stories, feminist approaches to Roa Bastos s novels, reflections on the writer s Guarani poetry, and a study of the complex, intertextual relationships between his novel El fiscal and his other texts.