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Why does Aunque SEA por uno minutos or Aunque ESTEMOS encerrados use subjunctive?

#46. I must be missing something. Why is seguí estudiando better than continué estudiando?

What other kinds of quizzes would you like to see on this site? One issue that I have encountered in the 'self-test' quizzes is that I can lazily rely on getting the answer by knowing that I'm going to get a question on a recent grammar point, etc, which means I'm not really thinking with any great depth, only assuming that the answer will be in reference to a recent lesson. For example, if I've just learned that por can refer to 'approximate location' I will know that that is going to be the answer when I encounter that kind of question (which might be amongst several conjugation type questions so will be even more obvious). I think the best way to address this is for the site to offer more general thematic quizzes to help consolidate certain points. For example, there could be a quiz on Por v Para which you could take after Stage A2. I would add these to the library as 'Consolidation Exercises'. Unfortunately, I think that our brains will always take the easiest route to the answer which isn't always the best way to learn. 

Why is the participle sujeta and not sujeto?

In my opinion, the correct answer should be era. I have never seen sería used instead. Please assist.

Va a estudiar medicina por seguir la tradición familiar.

Le dieron el trabajo por ser el primo del director.

I think these sentences would be better translated as:

She is going to study medicine because it's the family tradition.

He was given the job for being the manager's cousin.

So, I'm trying to solidify this idea in my head by contrasting it with the imperfecto de subjuntivo. Is the subordinate clause not in the subjunctive here because the speaker (presumably the 3rd party and the person repeating the statement) take for granted the factual of the idea (ie in the sentence "el hombre de tiempo dijo que llovería hoy" that the idea that it is going to rain is considered a fact, and not a supposition.