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Cinco de Mayo Trivia
 Choose an answer from the three choices
and True or False offered after each question and then "Check Your Answers"
at the end of the quiz.
1. Cinco de Mayo is Mexico's Independence Day.
2. The holidays commemorates an initial victory of Mexican forces
led by General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín over French forces in the Battle
of Puebla on May 5, 1862.
3. What state began the celebration of Cinco de Mayo in protest of
the French invasion?
- Baja California, Mexico
- California, USA
- Sonora, Mexico
4. What year was the French defeated and expelled in Mexico?
5. Commercial interests in the United States have capitalized on the
celebration, advertising Mexican products and services, with an emphasis
on beverages, foods, and _____.
6. Although it is not an official holiday, many cities with large
populations of Mexican ancestry honor the day as a symbolic
representation of Mexican pride and as a representation of a culture
that blends both Mexican and American roots.
7. What is NOT an examples of celebration?
- ballet folklórico
- mariachi
- baseball
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Check Your Answers
- 1. False. Mexico's Independence Day is actually September 16, which is the
most important national patriotic holiday in Mexico.
- 2. True
- 3. California, USA
- 4. 1867
- 5. music
- 6. True
- 7. baseball
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