Magic
What rescues Beli in the canefield?
How old is Lola when she finds out Belicia has cancer?
12 years old
Who is Beli's first crush?
Jack Pujols
Complete the quote: "For those of you who missed your mandatory ________ ____________ of Dominican history"
Two seconds
What was the national slogan of the DR during Trujillo's reign?
What are the mongoose's distinguishing features? (2 answers)
Black pelt and "golden lion eyes"
When Lola runs away at age 15, where does she go?
Wildwood, NJ
What is Beli's relationship to La Inca?
"her mother-aunt"
Who was the famous Dominican "debonair prettyboy" who Oscar is compared to?
Porfiro Rubirosa
When was the Haitian genocide?
1937
Where does Beli see the Faceless man? (2 answers, only need one)
On the side of the road on her way back from vacation, and sitting on top of the cop car when the Elvises accompany Mrs. Trujillo to get her.
Who does Lola lose her virginity to?
Aldo
Name the club where Beli met the Gangster.
What was the Haitian genocide also called, and why?
The Parsley Massacre, because your pronunciation of "perejil" was used to determine your nationality.
Complete the quote: "Through the numinous power of prayer La Inca saved the girl's life, laid an A-plus ____ on the Cabral family _____." (155)
Zafa, fuku
What is “Jersey malaise”?
An inextinguishable longing for elsewheres.
Who takes Beli from La Inca's house, and where do they take her?
Writers and dictators
Name Trujillo's son.
The mongoose, to Beli.
Describe Lola's hairstyles (2 answers)
As a child, she had long hair (something our narrator says he is sure her attacker admired.) Later, she has a buzz cut.
When La Inca tells Beli she must leave the country, what does Beli do?
Laugh.
He didn't actually do it; the narrator just liked the image
What did Trujillo do when he realized he was cornered, on the night of his death?
Got out of the car to try to fight ("like Tony Montana")