Characters
What is the name of the narrator/oldest sister?
Odilia
Where do the sisters find the dead body?
Their secret swimming hole
Why does Vilia say that the dead man looks like "a prostitute?"
Juanita put too much make up on him
Pita was crying after being stopped from calling Mama at the gas station. Velia says the Pita attacked her. How did Pita attack Velia?
Pita bit her
Who is the youngest of the five sisters?
Pita
What is the name/set of rules that the sisters call each other?
Cinco hermanitas
Who does Odilia see at the river bank for the first time? It is NOT the dead body! (We need the EXACT name)
La Llorona
What is the name of the game that the girls used to play with Papa?
Lotería
How old is the youngest sister?
10 years old
Which sister has the hardest time with the whole ordeal?
Pita
What does the ghost give Odilia?
An ear pendant
What type of party do the girls find in El Sacrificio?
A fifteenth birthday party
What are the names of the twins?
Velia and Delia
What does Mama do for a living?
Works for a restaurant
What group of people does the ghost say the sisters are descendants of?
The Aztecs
What creature first greets the girls at the dead man's house?
A big dog
This sister constantly clashes with the narrator.
Juanita
How does Odilia trick her sisters into not starting the journey immediately?
She pretends to be Mama after lying about a slumber party she had to attend
How do the girls get passed U.S customs without having the border agent notice the dead body?
They bribed him with money! (p.64-65)
(The distraction with earrings was the toll booth attendant p. 66)
Why did the Pérdido family believe that the dead man had died many years prior?
The authorities found his car in the desert and declared him legally dead