Ejercicio 1.1 · Inglés PAU Galicia Extraordinaria 2024

a. Justification: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz couldn’t go to school when she was a child.

Solución: «As a female, she had little access to formal education» (or «would be almost entirely self-taught»)

b. Justification: She went to university disguised as a young man.

Solución: «she begged her mother to let her dress up in men’s clothes and allow her to go and study in Mexico University, which only men were allowed to attend»

c. Justification: In Mexico City she studied with university professors.

Solución: «she was famously tested by 40 university professors, all of whom were shocked by her deep knowledge»

d. Justification: Thanks to her joining a religious order she could continue with her learning and writing.

Solución: «Convent life afforded Sor Juana her own apartment, time to study and write»

e. Justification: Living in a convent prevented her from contacting other contemporary intellectuals.

Solución: «She was also able to continue her contact with other scholars and powerful members of the court.»

f. Justification: She ended up her life totally involved in her literary writings.

Solución: «She reduced her literary pursuits and abandoned her secular studies.»

True or false choice for statements a-f

Solución: a. True; b. False; c. False; d. True; e. False; f. False