Section IA: Multiple Choice
15 Questions | 20 Minutes | 10% of Exam Score

• This section includes 3 sets of questions based on authentic audio texts including:

  • An excerpt from an interview with an author

  • A recited poem that is not on the required reading list

  • A presentation on a literary topic related to course content
     

• Students will have time to skim the questions for each set before listening to the audio.

• The interview and presentation will be played once; the recited poem will be played twice.

Section IB: Multiple Choice
50 Questions | 1 Hour | 40% of Exam Score

• This section includes 6 sets of 7–10 questions based on readings from a variety of genres, periods, and places in the Spanish-speaking world.

• Readings include:

  • Works from the required reading list

  • Works outside the required reading list

  • 1 passage of literary criticism regarding a work or author from the list
     

• 1 set will contain 2 passages that are related by theme—one of those passages is taken from the required reading list and the other is from a non-required text.

Section II: Free Response
4 Questions | 1 Hour, 40 Minutes | 50% of Exam Score

• 2 Short-Answer Questions. Suggested time: 15 minutes each (~30 minutes). 

  • Text Explanation: Students read an excerpt from a text on the required reading list, identify the author and period of the text, and explain the development of a given theme found within the excerpt in relation to the whole work from which the excerpt is taken.

  • Text and Art Comparison: Students read an excerpt from a text on the required reading list and study an image of a work of art (e.g., a painting, photograph, sculpture, or drawing) related by theme to the text. They are asked to compare how a particular theme is represented in both the text and the image, and then to connect that theme to the genre, period, or movement of the text.
     

• 2 Essay Questions. Suggested time: 35 minutes each (~70 minutes).

  • Analysis of a Single Text: Students read an excerpt from a text on the required reading list and then analyze how the text represents the characteristics of a particular genre as well as a particular historical, cultural, or social context.

  • Text Comparison: Students read 2 excerpts related by theme, one from a text on the required list, the other from a text not on the list and analyze the effect of literary devices that the authors use in the texts to develop a particular theme that is provided in the question prompt.