Peru Diction Quiz

Ernesto’s journey through Peru begins with him abandoning his transportation and walking through the DESOLATE landscape by foot. The BEASTIAL cold takes a toll on them as they travel through the night, but then they come across a truck carrying “human livestock.” The truck is filled with the Indians, and it takes them to a DESOLATE village in the mountains that looks like one that their ancestors would have lived in hundreds of years ago. The people there had become glum and FATALISTIC, excepting the troubles and injustices that BEFELL them long ago when their people were conquered by the Spanish. Being a social INTERLOCUTOR, Ernesto engages in conversation with an Indian school teacher that lost his job for defying the Latin Americans’ oppressive ways. The man goes off on a TIRADE, telling Ernesto how he ABHORS the MESTIZOS who enslaved the Indians even though they had blood ties to the Indians as well. Ernesto’s spirits are dampened again when he visits Machu Picchu and sees the city that was once great, but is now nothing but an ancient RELIC, thanks to the conquistadors who sacked the city long ago. Ernesto feels sympathetic for the constant LESIONS the native Indians had endured all these years. This is certainly not all the suffering Ernesto sees in Peru. Everywhere in Peru he goes, from Lima to the leper colonies, he is questioned by poor about his wonderful Argentina, the "Land of Peron."