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100
What are the eldest sister’s ambitions as a young girl?
What is to be a lawyer?
100
The Butterflies are a symbol for who or what?
What is freedom/Mirabel sisters
100
Minerva is very upset with her father in chapter 6 for two reasons—the first being that she discovers she has 4 half-sisters as a result of Enrique’s affair. What is the other reason Minerva is disappointed with her father?
What is He has been hiding the letters that Lio wrote to Minerva
100
In 1994, who runs the museum to honor the Mirabal sisters?
What is dede
100
The setting of the story is in which country?
What is DOminican Republic
200
The chapters that are written as a diary are from the point of view of which sister?
Who is Maria Teresa?
200
“But without a plan Dede’s courage unraveled like a row of stitches not finished with a good, sturdy knot” (76).
What is a simile?
200
How does Minerva get her father out of jail while also getting Trujillo’s permission to attend law school?
What is she gambles with Trujillo using dice
200
What did the sisters by on the day they died?
What is purses?
200
Trujillo systematically killed off which group of people?
What is Hatians?
300
Who discovers Carmen and Enrique Mirabal’s illegitimate family?
What is Minerva?
300
The way that Julia Alvarez consistently presents the sacrifice and suffering of the Mirabal sisters would most likely be classified as:
What is theme?
300
What does Minerva discover at her law school graduation?
What is She will not be able to practice law
300
What is the religion of the sisters?
What is Catholicism?
300
Trujillo is also known as el ___
What is el Jefe?
400
Who does Patria begin to pray to, along with Jesus?
What is Trujillo?
400
In chapter 10, Patria repeats the phrase, “And on the third day He rose again
What is Allusion
400
What is the importance of the fourteenth of June?
It is the date Patria witnessed innocent people killed during a bombing
400
Describe gender roles in the DR.
What is women are traditional; men may have affairs and the wife is expected to look the other way. Women do not generally go to college.
400
What does el jefe mean?
What is the boss?
500
Explain the symbolism of the blue and yellow houses.
What is BLUE houses symbolize Papa's "first" family; yellow - hidden family.
500
What does Minerva suffer from?
What is Tuberculosis
500
Viva la Mariposas means what?
What is long live the butterflies?