Tita expressed her creativity most in this culinary art.
What is cooking?
100
This expensive rite of passage is celebrated by high school students of all ethnicities, genders, and/or religions.
What is Prom?
100
People came to listen to Dr. King deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of this monument.
What is the Lincoln Memorial?
100
This literary device uses words that sound like the objects they name or the sounds those objects make.
What is Onomatopoeia?
100
This person runs the computer lab.
Who is Mr. Garcia?
200
This family tradition is handed down to the de la Garza family.
What is the youngest daughter never marries to take care of the mother?
200
Rumspringa is a rite of passage celebrated by this group of people.
Who are the Amish?
200
Martin Luther King said that, as African Americans struggled for equality, they should never resort to this.
What is violence?
200
This literary device uses vivid descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste).
What is imagery?
200
She is the librarian downstairs, and always helps teachers and students.
Who is Ms. Weber?
300
This dinner meal causes Gertrudis to run around the field without any clothing.
What is Quail in Rose Petal Sauce?
300
In this ceremony, a boy or girl recites a "bracha" or blessing in the presence of family members and a Rabbi.
What is a Bar/Bat Mitzvah service?
300
George Bush's speech was in front of this organization
What is the NAACP?
300
A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else.
What is a metaphor?
300
She is the Assistant Principal of the Humanities Department.
Who is Ms. Heckstall?
400
Gertrudis is the product of a socially unacceptable love affair between a black man and this character.
Who is Mama Elena?
400
The rite of passage that is referred to as either female circumcision or this.
What is genital mutilation?
400
When Dr. King quoted the words "all men are guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness," he was referring to this historic document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
This literary device uses any element of language (a sound, word, phrase, or sentence) more than once, to emphasize a point, create imagery, or establish mood.
What is repetition?
400
The furry mascot of the school basketball team that goes by the scientific name 'cannis lupus.'
What is a wolf?
500
Tita returns to her 'senses' by the hands of this thoughtful character.
Who is Dr. John Brown?
500
The scientific term that measures the amount of matter contained in a physical body is a catholic ceremony a girl attends in her 15th year.
What is a Quinceanera Mass?
500
In his speech, former President George Bush stated that instead of Jim Crow laws, discrimination is still a reality today in this form.
What is racial profiling?
500
Writers use this literary device to provide a direct or indirect reference to something historical, literary, religious, or mythical.
What is allusion?
500
This avid wrestler is also the current Sophomore representative.