Understanding Hispanic Heritage and Identity Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

Orlando Antigua survived a bullet wound to the head before becoming the first Hispanic and first non-black to play for the Harlem Globetrotters in 52 years.

Richard E. Cavazos, recipient of two Distinguished Service Cross awards, was the United States Army's first Hispanic 4-star general.

in August 2006, Brigadier General Angela Salinas became the first Hispanic female general officer in United States Marine Corps history.

the genre of Hispanic creative arts known as costumbrismo (example pictured) was influenced by Englishmen Joseph Addison and Richard Steele and Frenchmen Jouy and Louis-Sébastien Mercier.

Olga D. González-Sanabria, a Puerto Rican scientist and inventor, is the highest ranking Hispanic at NASA Glenn Research Center.

Miriam Rodon-Naveira, a Puerto Rican scientist, was the first Hispanic woman to hold the Deputy Directorship for the Environmental Sciences Division in the National Exposure Research Laboratory.

David B. Barkley (pictured), who drowned in the Meuse River, France after completing a scouting mission behind enemy lines during World War I, was the U.S. Army's first Hispanic Medal of Honor recipient.

Edgar Allison Peers was an English Hispanist who coined the term "red-brick university".

Linda Chavez-Thompson was the first woman, colored person, and Hispanic elected an officer of the AFL-CIO.

Bidal Aguero, a civil rights activist in Lubbock, published El Editor, the oldest-running Hispanic newspaper in Texas.

Understanding Hispanic Heritage and Identity

1 Hispanic (Spanish: hispano, hispánico) is a term that originally denoted a relationship to the ancient ________ (geographically coinciding with the Iberian Peninsula).

2 Still more recently, the term has also (or alternatively) been used to denote the culture and people of countries formerly ruled by Spain, usually with a majority of the population speaking the ________.

3 Genetic studies on the (male) Y chromosome conducted by the ________ in 2008 appear to support the idea that the number of forced conversions have been previously underestimated significantly.

4 From this tribe's name had derived the name of the Roman province of ________, which was a part of Roman province of Hispania, and Lusitania remains Portugal's name in Latin.

5 There are also the now Catholic-professing descendants of marranos and the Hispano crypto-Jews believed to exist in the once Spanish-held ________ and scattered through Latin America.

6 Hispanic and Latino at the ________

7 [14] The ________ - Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs encourages the same self-identification.

8 In addition, due to the high national development of the diverse ________, there is a lot of music in the different languages of the Peninsula (Catalan, Galician and Basque, mainly).

9 For instance, ________ are not considered "Hispanic" by the United States Census Bureau.

10 [10] In other ________ countries, Hispanic and Latino are not commonly used.

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