The Colonization of Quisqueya
The name of the indigenous people of Quisqueya.
Who are the Taino?
The government responsible for training Trujillo in the 1910s and 1920s.
What is the USA?
The names of the 4 Mirabal sisters.
Who are Patria, Minerva, Mate, and Dede?
Negative nickname for Trujillo.
What is "el Goat"?
In In the Time of the Butterflies, the sister who wrote in Epistolary Form.
Who is Mate?
After the start of colonialism, these were the TWO (you need both for credit) parts of Hispaniola.
What are Saint Domingue (Haiti) and Santo Domingo (the Dominican Republic)?
The name of the larger conflict going on in the background of Trujillo's regime; it likely slowed the USA from intervening in the DR.
What is the Cold War?
The sister who is most closely identified with Catholicism.
Who is Patria?
The name of the movement (in Spanish!) that the Mirabal sisters were involved in.
What is the 14 de Junio Movement?
The TWO people involved in this quote:
He glares at me, and then slips the sash over his head and holds it out. An attendant quickly and reverently collects it. El Jefe smiles cynically, “Anything else bother you about my dress I could take off?” He yanks me by the wrist, thrusting his pelvis at me in a vulgar way, and I can see my hand in an endless slow motion rise– a mind all of its own– and come down on the astonished, made-up face. (100)
Who are Minerva & Trujillo?
These communities were made up formerly enslaved people who ran away, often living in remote areas and creating their own unique cultural traditions.
What are Maroon communities?
The name of Trujillo's secret police.
What is the SIM (Servicio de Inteligencia Militar)?
The sister most famous in the Underground.
Who is Minerva?
What is Cuba?
The literary device of the anacahuita tree AND its meaning.
What is a symbol that represents family?
The country on Hispaniola that gained independence first.
What is Haiti (1804 through a massive slave revolt)?
Positive nicknames for Trujillo.
What is "el Benefactor" or "el Jefe"?
What is a pharmacist?
In the novel, the sister who experiences the events of June 14th.
Who is Patria?
Miss Sonrisa
What is an epithet of Dede?
YOUR TEACHER WILL TELL YOU HOW STRICT THEY ARE BEING WITH THE CORRECT ANSWER HERE:
The correct order and definitions of each level in the Spanish colonial social hierarchy.
(top) Peninsulares-- whites born in Spain
Creoles-- whites born in the New World
Mestizos-- Indigenous and White descent
Mulattos- Black and White descent
Native Americans
Enslaved Africans
The name of the only party in Trujillo's one-party state.
What is the Dominican Party?
The date on which the girls were murdered by the Trujillo regime.
What is November 25, 1960?
What is protecting her sisters?
(also acceptable: raising their children)
The literary device used in this quote AND its meaning:
"Build your house upon a rock, He said, do my will. And though the rain fall and the floods come and the winds blow, the good wive's house will stand....My sister's were so different! They built their homes on sand and called the slip and slide adventure." (pg. 148)
What is an allusion to the Parable of the Two Builders, explaining how Patria sees her faith as justifing her good fortune?