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Who is the hero of the oldest surviving Castilian epic?
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Who wrote the play Life Is a Dream?
Answer: Calderón de la Barca
Why: King Basilio locks his son Segismundo in a tower because the stars foretold the prince would become a tyrant.
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Which body part does Quevedo compare to a sundial and a swordfish?
Answer: The nose
Why: Tradition reads the sonnet as a jab at the large nose of Quevedo's great rival, the poet Luis de Góngora.
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Which mathematician won Spain's first Nobel Prize in Literature?
Answer: José Echegaray
Why: The 1904 prize was split between Echegaray and the Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral.
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Who was the poet shot near Granada in August 1936?
Answer: Federico García Lorca
Why: Lorca was 38 when he was killed, about five weeks after the Spanish Civil War broke out.
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Where does Don Juan end up in Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio?
Answer: In heaven
Why: Doña Inés's love saves Zorrilla's Don Juan, while Tirso de Molina's original seducer is dragged down to hell.
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Who does Augusto Pérez travel to Salamanca to see in Niebla?
Answer: His own author
Why: Unamuno subtitled the book a nivola, a genre name he invented in place of the Spanish novela.
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