JEOPOARDY: LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE - CHAPTS. 1-6

CHARACTERS = 1 PT.

1

Clue: This character is the youngest daughter of Mama Elena

Tita

2

Clue: This character dies from exhaustion due to 3 days of preparing meals for Rosaura & Pedro’s wedding.

Nacha

3

Clue: This “overheated” character gets to express her love for the revolutionary rebel who carries her away on horseback.

Gertrudis

4

Clue: This character worries a lot about keeping Pedro & Tita apart.

Mama Elena

5

Clue: This character is the rebel who tries take food from Mama Elena’s ranch, and also has a secret.

Captain Juan

6

Clue: This character died from hunger

Roberto

FOODS = 2 PTS.

1

Clue: Mole is one of the ingredients in this dish.

CHAMPANDONGO

2

Clue:  What Tita prepares for her nephew’s baptism

Turkey Mole

3

Clue:  Tita’s quail in rose petal sauce was like a this to Gertrudis who ran running through the fields naked and passionate.

APHRODISIAC

4

When the revolutionaries came to the ranch looking for food, the Sergeant only found eight of these.

Chickens

5

The revolutionaries found enough of these on Mama Elena's ranch to feed the entire batallion for a week.

Pigeons and Doves

6

Tita was so sensitive to this food that it caused her to cry and cry in her mother's belly before she was born. 

Onions

PLACES = 3 PTS.

1

Clue:  Where Tita helped Mama Elena take her bathes.

The storeroom

2

Clue: Tita lost interest in life once Pedro, Rosaura, and Roberto moved there.

San Antonio

3

Clue: Despite Mama Elena’s instructions, Dr. Brown does not take Tita there.

The insane asylum

4

Clue: The favorite place of Dr. Brown’s grandmother, Morning Light.

Laboratory

5

Where Gertrudis ends up working after leaving the ranch.

A brothel

6

Where Tita runs to after she learns of Roberto's death.

The dovecote

THEMES = 4 PTS.

1

This theme represents the reason why as the youngest daughter Tita can't marry.

Family Tradition

2

Clue: This theme represents Tita making preparations for Rosaura’s wedding, even though her heart is broken.

Duty to Family and Self Sacrifice

3

Clue:  This theme represents Tita’s inability to express her love for Pedro.

Oppressed Emotions vs. Passion

4

This theme represents why Mama Elena hits Tita with a wooden spoon after Tita reacts to Roberto's death.

Rebellion

5

This theme represents Morning Light's "matches" theory.

Needs Of The Body vs. Needs Of The Soul

6

This theme represents Tita's words, "Because I don't want to."

Self Growth

LITERARY TERMS = 5 PTS.

1

Tita's tears flooding the kitchen floor is an example of this.

Magical Realism

2

"And like magic the watermelon rind would open like the petals of a flower," is an example of this.

Simile

3

". . .she might have been an angel and a devil in one woman

Metaphor

4

"Her body was giving off so much heat that the wooden walls began to split and burst into flame" is an example of this.

Magical Realism

5

"Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements. . .how a soul that hasn't been warmed by love is lifeless. . ." is an example of this.

Descriptive Language/Writing

6

"Just as a poet plays with words, Tita juggled ingredients and quantities at will. . ." is an example of this.

Simile