The feeling expressed by Patria in Chapter 4 when she describes her birth. The sisters also felt this way by the expected course of their lives, including boarding school and then marriage, as well as by their religious and familial duties.
What is Entrapment
100
the Mirabal sister's favorite driver
What is Rufino
100
A urologist in Santiago. Delia tells Minerva and Patria that he is maintaining the revolutionary movement in their area. He is a "genial little man" and explains to Minerva why the uprising of young men failed.
What is Dr. Pedro Vinas
100
What news does Elsa give Minerva?
What is the news that the OAS has imposed sanctions against the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela all have broken relations with the country.
100
Who is Hilda and how is she connected to Minerva? Why is the connection between these two important to note?
What is an atheist friend of Minerva's. they attend meetings at Don Horacio's house
200
To make money, they start up a specialty business of making
What is children's christening gowns
200
Patria's youngest son, named after Che Guevara of the Cuban revolution.
What is Raul Ernesto
200
One of Minerva's and Maria Teresa's cellmates at the jail, whom Maria Teresa calls "our little birdseed bell." She has a little girl and is "pretty dark with quite a kink in her hair." She tells Maria Teresa about her tragic life story, then tries to kiss her.
What is Magdalena
200
Who is Magdalena? Amanita?
What is a prison friend of Mate's; Magdalena's daughter
200
What did Patria and her family assume she would become? What changed her mind?
What is a nun; she fell in love with a man named Pedrito
300
she has arranged to buy their little house to have for them when Manolo gets out of prison
What is Dona Fefita
300
The daughter of Maria Teresa and Leandro.
What is Jaqueline
300
Victor Alicinio Pen, the head of the northern division of the SIM. He is a very fat man with "sharp, piglike eyes," and a toady of Trujillo. After Pedrito and Nelson are arrested, he takes over their land.
What is Captain Pena
300
Why were Manolo and Leandro moved to Puerto Plata?
What is because the roads are very remote and dangerous
300
Who did Minerva discover in the small yellow house on the edge of the property?
What is Minerva discovered her half-sisters, aka the products of her father's decade long affair
400
Tells the girls that he has just come from a reception honoring Trujillo at the mayor's house
What is Tio Pepe
400
The woman with whom Enrique Mirabal has been having an affair and with whom he has other children, including Margarita.
What is Carmen
400
An old Spaniard who moved to the countryside near Mama's house with his wife Dona Belen from San Cristobal.
What is Don Bernardo
400
What did the note in the purse say? Who put it there?
What is "Avoid the pass; Jorge Almonte
400
What did Patria ask Pena for? Did she get it?
What is to arrange for Nelson to be pardoned; he was after many months
500
Name of the two prisons
What is La Victoria and Puerto Plata
500
The governor, who suggests that Minerva allow Trujillo to sleep with her in order to save her father, after Enrique Mirabal is taken to jail. He is "a tall, handsome man with a worried face."
What is Don Antonio de la Maza
500
Patria's priest, who is "straight out of seminary and brimming with new ideas." He tells her that he, too, is "lost so that I can't show you the way." He becomes involved in the revolution.
What is Padre de Jesus Lopez
500
What happened on the mountain pass?
What is the sisters are ambushed and killed by Trujillo's supporters
500
What was the importance of Mate's braid?
What is she used the braid to hide the two notes for the officer