This character is the love interest for the two male main characters
Who is Phong?
100
In the story, "Gregor," Gregor is this.
What is a cockroach?
100
Julia Alvarez's country of origin
What is the Dominican Republic?
100
The play takes place in this country.
What is Ireland?
100
The estimated population of Native Americans pre Columbus
What is between 50 - 100 million people?
200
If Fowler is representative of England and the British Empire, Pyle is representative of this country.
What is the United States?
200
In the story, "Allesverloren," the protagonist goes to visit this person.
Who is her dead husband's male lover?
200
In "Names/Nombres," Alvarez is exploring this main topic in reference to immigrating to English-speaking countries.
What is the Anglicizing of ethnic names?
200
This character is has a speech "defect" and in the opening scene of the play is being taught to say their name.
Who is Sarah?
200
The population of Native Americans as of 2013
Bonus point: Population of descendants of European colonizers as of 2013
What is 2%?
Bonus: 77%
300
Cultural positionality effects how as readers we understand the ways in which a piece of literature is approaching postcolonial topics. Because Graham Greene's positionality is [blank], we must approach it differently than Rushdie's or Friel's.
What is part of the colonizer's culture?
300
This story is primarily about language and the power dynamic issues with language can produce between people.
What is "Mother Tongue?"
300
In the essay "I Want to Be Miss Ameríca," the Alvarez sisters do what to try to be "beautiful."
What is attempt to assimilate to a European aesthetic?
Or will accept Nair their legs, straighten their hair, try to lighten their skin.
300
This character speaks multiple languages, including Latin.
Who is Jimmy Jack?
300
The names of three of the Native American writers you were assigned to read.
Who are Sherman Alexie, Natalie Diaz, Simon J. Oritz, Leslie Marmon Silko, or Joy Harjo?
400
During our discussion of this novel, we talked about the three main characters as making this book a classic example of this
What is extended allegory?
400
When discussing the characters in "Dreaming of the Dead," we did a class activity regarding this literary device.
For a bonus point: What is the importance of this device? How does it enhance literature?
What is allusion?
400
At the end of the chapter, "The Blood of the Conquistadores," this character is allowed to speak last.
For a bonus, what did we discuss in regards to this character getting the last word?
Who is Chucha?
400
This is the character Maire has a budding romance between Maire. And this is why the romance is taboo.
Who is Lieutenant Yolland?
What is his being English and she being Irish?
400
This is the famous landmark the old woman on the Amtrak points out to the speaker in "On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City"
What is Walden Pond?
500
At the end of the novel, the discussion between Phong and Fowler reveal each character's secret thoughts around Pyle's death. Fowler's are explicit, Phong's implied. These secret thoughts are
What is Fowler's guilt and Phong's knowledge of Fowler's involvement in Pyle's death?
500
This character has two father figures, an adoptive father and a biological father.
Who is Charlotte/Charlie?
500
This is one of the main postcolonial issues dealt with in most of Alvarez's essays and stories.
Hint: regarding appearance & language especially
What is assimilation & acculturation?
500
The title, Translations, is largely referring to this in the play's plot.
What are the translations of the place names from Irish to English?
500
The historical name the speaker in the poem, "Giving Blood," tells the white nurse.