Vocabulary
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What is opera glasses?
The two settings in the story.
What is the modern world and the Aztec world?
What is salt and blood?
The man described his motorcycle as this at the end of the story.
What is an enormous metal insect?
The author of the story.
Who is Julio Cortazar
A charm or necklace believed to have protective powers.
What is an amulet?
The protagonist in the story.
Who is the man?
What is on top of the man?
The underground cells were called.
What is Teocalli?
The year Cortazar fled to Paris.
What is 1951?
People who assist in religious services?
What are acolytes?
The antagonist in the story.
Who are the Aztecs?
Time on the jewelry store read.
What is ten to nine?
This person was the executioner.
Who is the priest?
The author died at this age.
(hint: born August 26, 1914 died February 12, 1984)
What is sixty-nine years old?
To make or define as sacred.
What is consecrate?
The climax of the story. (most intense,exciting)
What is the end of the story, when we realize the protagonist is not dreaming about the Aztecs that they are his reality?
What is the patient next to him in the hospital room?
The man was given this to eat in the hospital.
What is marvelous golden broth?
The place he died.
What is Paris?
Government offices.
What are ministries?
The name the Aztecs gave to the ritual war.
What is the war of the blossom?
The man wore this for protection.
What is the amulet?
Who was coming toward the man with a stone knife in his hand?
Who is the executioner-priest?
The author occupations. (name at least one)
What is teacher, novelist, and short-story writer?