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Descriptive Statements:
- Demonstrate knowledge of major political, economic, social, and cultural trends and developments that have shaped and continue to shape the history and perspectives of the target-language-speaking world.
- Analyze the roles of major historical events and key eras in the target-language-speaking world and their influence on the development and evolution of their respective cultures.
- Analyze the roles of major figures in the history of the target-language-speaking world and their influence on the development and evolution of their respective cultures.
- Recognize the major physical and geographic features of target-language-speaking regions and the roles that these features have played and continue to play in the development and evolution of target-language-speaking cultures.
Sample Item:
The French acquisition of Corsica from Italy in 1768 was most significant to later French development because:
- the cultivation of grapes for wine began in Corsica in the sixth century.
- Corsicans waged a successful revolution and gained independence in 1729.
- the island of Corsica occupies a strategic location in the Mediterranean Sea.
- Napoléon Bonaparte was born in Corsica as a French citizen.
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D. This question requires the examinee to demonstrate knowledge of major political, economic, social, and cultural trends and developments that have shaped the history and perspectives of the French-speaking world. Born in Corsica the year after the island became part of France, Napoléon Bonaparte was a military officer who seized power during the unsettled years following the French Revolution. As emperor, he introduced important political, economic, and social reforms. His influence on early nineteenth-century politics, the economy, and society shaped modern France in many ways and is still seen throughout the French-speaking world to this day.
Descriptive Statements:
- Demonstrate knowledge of characteristic practices of daily life and customs in target-language-speaking cultures and ways in which such practices reflect the perspectives of target-language-speaking cultures.
- Demonstrate knowledge of products used in daily life in target-language-speaking cultures (e.g., food products, household items) and ways in which they reflect the perspectives of target-language-speaking cultures.
- Demonstrate knowledge of major cultural institutions (e.g., government, social relationships, educational systems, patterns of work and leisure) and practices (e.g., major traditions, holidays and festivals) of target-language-speaking cultures and ways in which such institutions and practices reflect the perspectives of target-language-speaking cultures.
- Demonstrate knowledge of major works, genres, and authors of literature written in the target language and ways in which they reflect the perspectives of target-language-speaking cultures.
- Demonstrate knowledge of major works, achievements, characteristic forms, and key individuals in the arts and sciences (e.g., visual and performing arts, architecture, medicine, inventions) of target-language-speaking cultures and ways in which they reflect the perspectives of target-language-speaking cultures.
- Identify major regional differences in the practices, products, and perspectives of various target-language-speaking cultures.
- Compare and contrast the practices, products, and perspectives of target-language-speaking cultures with the practices, products, and perspectives of non-target-language-speaking cultures.
Sample Item:
Perspectives on the lifestyle and activities of the eighteenth-century French aristocracy could best be gained from viewing paintings created by:
- Camille Corot and Jean-François Millet of the Barbizon school.
- rococo artists Jean-Antoine Watteau and Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
- Marc Chagall and Maurice Boitel of the Ecole de Paris.
- romantic artists Eugène Delacroix and Théodore Chassériau.
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B. This question requires the examinee to demonstrate knowledge of key individuals in the arts of French-speaking cultures and ways in which they reflect the perspectives of French-speaking cultures. Rococo painting reflected an interest in intimacy and detail and often presented scenes of everyday life in fanciful settings that offer images of the interests and appearance of early eighteenth-century aristocracy. Watteau and Fragonard were important painters of the genre, which captures in finely detailed scenes and portraits many aspects of the aristocratic lifestyle of the time.
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