¿Qué sabes de Oscar Romero?
Directions: Select the best possible answer for each of the statements that relate to the biography of
Oscar Romero you just read. Based on your answers, fill in the missing word that Romero said during
his work with the poor in El Salvador. Then answer the question that follows.
Events:
A. Means by which Romero died.
B. This event instigated a change in
Romero from timid to bold.
C. President of the United States
during the time that Romero served
in El Salvador.
D. Means by which attendees of
Romero’s funeral died.
E. What Romero charged each person
to become in the event that they lost
their freedom of speech.
F. Twentieth anniversary of Romero’s
death.
G. What the people called Romero.
H. What Romero was doing when he
died.
I. Where Romero claimed he would be
resurrected if he was killed.
J. Romero’s first priest was killed for
doing this.
K. What Romero promised for those
who wanted to kill him.
L. What Jose Martí called the bloodiest
century in history.
M. Romero promised he would not do
this until the repression was
stopped.
N. In one year, more than this many
Salvadorans were killed.
O. The Salvadorans perceived their
archbishop to be this for them.
P. Amount of dollars the United States
sent as aid money every day for
over 12 years.
Terms:
____1. 1,5 million
____2. Death of Father Grande
____3. Jimmy Carter
____4. Attend a government function
____5. Prophet
____6. Forgiveness
____7. Defending peasant’s rights
____8. Celebrating mass
____9. The Salvadoran people
____10. Monseñor
____11. el 24 de marzo de 2000
____12. Hour of the furnaces
____13. Army sharpshooters on roofs
____14. 75.000
____15. Good Shepherd
____16. Assassination
____17. Ronald Reagan
____18. Padre de Paz
____19. el Cinco de Mayo de 1980
____20. Revenge
“No soldier is __________ to _____y an order that is contrary to the w____ of ____.”
15-2-12-9-10-5-13
15-2-5
9-12-12
10-15-13
Suppose you saw this statement on the bumper sticker of a car in front of you at a stoplight. What would
you think of the person driving the car? Do you agree or disagree?
This unit was created by Sarah De Young