Chapter 1
What did the sisters find while they were swimming in their secret swimming hole?
A dead man.
Whose car does Juanita suggest they take for their journey?
Who does Odilia meet by the river after she sees two children fall into the water?
La Llorona.
What does POV stand for?
Point of View
Which literary device is used in this excerpt:
"La Llorona's gaunt face shriveled up like a pale raisin..." (52).
Simile/Imagery
What two things did the sisters find in the dead man's boot?
1. money
2. a wallet (with an expired ID and photos of his family)
Which sister pretends she is going to a sleepover Marisol's house, but really goes to the diner to get her mom's help?
Odilia
What does La Llorona give to Odilia for protection?
An earring with five rings.
What point of view is the story told in?
First person
What literary device is used in this excerpt when La Llorona speaks about what might happen in the upcoming journey:
"Change must take place. It is important. To remain as you are would lead to isolation" (53).
Foreshadowing
Which sister loves Crime Dawgs and is not afraid of the dead man?
Juanita
Where does Mama work?
A diner (Mr. Gee's)
According to this book, why does La Llorona come to the river looking for her children every night?
To punish herself and relive the nightmare of losing her children.
Whose point of view is the story told from?
Odilia's
What literary device is used in this excerpt from Chapter 2:
"'Are you gong to call your fairy godmother and ask her to turn a watermelon into a chariot?'" (23).
Allusion
Which sister is nervous to turn the dead body into the authorities because her Papa might see her?
Pita
What is the sister's motto?
Cinco hermanitas...
together forever.
According to La Llorona, what is the purpose of the girls' journey?
To heal their family.
“It wasn’t at all how I had planned our night to end, but I figured all hope wasn’t lost. It was just easier to let my sisters think they’d won” (43).
From reading this excerpt, what do you, the reader, know that Odilia’s sisters don’t know?
Odilia intends to prevent their plan from moving forward. (She plans to surrender the body to the authorities at the border).
What literary device is used in the following excerpt:
"Mr. Moore was a big fat slop-eating hog..." (35).
Metaphor
What is the name of the dead man's hometown?
El Sacrificio
According to Odilia, what is Rule Number One of the code of the cinco hermanitas?
The eldest sister has the final word.
Which Mesoamerican people are the sisters descendants of?
The Aztecs
What effect is created when the reader knows that Odilia was telling the truth to Juanita about talking to La Llorona?
Relief
What literary device is used in the following excerpt:
"His bald pink head was covered in sweat. It glistened like a Christmas ornament under the fluorescent lighting spilling out of the cafe" (34).
Simile/Imagery