On the second day of the university entrance exams (PAU or EBAU), students were able to freely choose between two of the four options offered. The options were: two images, one from La Vanguardia in the proclamation of the Second Republic in 1931 and another from the Arxiu de Barcelona, signed by Carlos Pérez de Rozas, from an FAI column on August 28, 1936; and two articles, signed by Alejandro Lerroux and Ramon Serrano Suñer.
The photogravure cover of La Vanguardia is from April 17, 1931, and a smiling young woman appears in a car, in front of Barcelona City Hall, carrying a republican flag, celebrating the proclamation of the Second Republic. The students had to identify the type of source, explain the historical context, and describe the content of the source.
Just to this question it was asked to develop the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia from 1932 to 1934 with its institutions (Parliament, the Executive Council, the Court of Cassation), and the so-called Events of October 1934 which led to the suspension of the Statute .
In the second exercise, there was a fiery speech by the Francoist Minister of Foreign Affairs Ramón Serrano Suñer, dated June 1941, who, in the name of the Falange, calls for the extermination of Russia, which he accuses of the Spanish Civil War and the death of the founder of the Falange, José Antonio Primo de Rivera. Likewise, the students had to explain Franco's foreign policy during World War II and the characteristics of the regime between 1939 and 1947.
In the third exercise, the students have faced an impetuous article by Alejandro Lerroux, published in the newspaper La Rebeldía, on September 1, 1906. In it, the young "barbarians" are urged to destroy churches, rape novices and burn property records.
Likewise, they had to describe the labor conflict during the period of 1902 and 1923, with the key manifestations, and unionism. Also the crisis of the restoration system.
Finally, in the fourth exercise they had to describe a photo from August 28, 1936, at the beginning of the Civil War, in which a group of militiamen, men and women in uniform and armed, saluting joyfully with raised fists. It is a column of Los Aguiluchos of the FAI. The photo is by Carlos Pérez de Rozas.
Finishing the History exam, this morning they face Artistic Drawing, Latin and Mathematics. And, in the afternoon, technical drawing, Art History, Philosophy, Spanish Literature and Chemistry.
