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The Author
Characters In The Book
Setting
Literary Devices
What happens next?
100
What is the author's name?
Who is Dagoberto Gilb
100
What did Dagoberto call Bill Ripley?
What is Belly Ripley
100
What year does the essay start off in?
What is 1979
100
"looking at me like a puppy dog" pg 256
What is a simile
100
"One had him in Central Texas driving wild in the country, with open beers and empty cans in his vehicle"
What is "getting pulled over to pee and getting arrested by secret service"
200
What is the author's ethnicity?
What is Mexican
200
Name at least two jobs Pat Little Dog had
What is Author, Merchant, Fire work seller, TAAS grader
200
Where does the story start off in?
What is El Paso Texas
200
"I went after disgusting rats like a serial killer" pg 259
What is a simile
200
He was maybe going maybe forty-five through Kern Place- a desirable, rich....ahead not fifty yards"
What is Running over a curb into the lawn and almost hitting a man
300
What was the author's primary occupation throughout the essay?
What is a Carpenter
300
Who was Dagobeto's neighbor?
Who is Bill Ripley
300
Where did Ripley go to college?
What is Harvard University
300
"You have a rat on your brain" pg 260
What is an exaggeration
300
"I was on the Hollywood freeway, probably singing..when I felt his fingers scratching my left shoulder
What is having a rat on his arm and going down the windowsill
400
What did the author strive to become?
What is a Writer
400
Why would Dagoberto laugh when Ripley said "toddy" in his name?
What is because of his pronunciation
400
Where did Ripley get his PhD?
What is University of Utah
400
"His reputation was consuming Utah" pg 261
What is personification
400
"He had three women drivers..cops never suspected them"
What is one of them gets pulled over
500
What made the author the second highest paid worker on his job site?
What is being able to tie steel.
500
What bad impressions does Ripley give to people (name at least one)
What is Racist, and party animal
500
What three states does the essay revolve around?
What is Texas, Utah, and California
500
"his uncle in Corpus Christi to pursue Cooper" pg 264
What is Alliteration
500
"I got an email from there and it was all in caps"
What is letting him know he was happy