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Grammar
Vocabulary
"How to Date..."
"Fiesta, 1980"
"Ysrael"
100
This is a person, place, thing or idea.
What is a noun?
100
This is a synonym for lexicon.
What is jargon?
100
This is the only thing that runs smoothly through your hair.
What is Africa?
100
Tia smuggles Yunior three of these while she interrogates him about his family life.
What are pastelitos?
100
These are the ages of Yunior and Rafa in this story.
What are 9 and 12, respectively.
200
This suffix is often - but not always - a component of adverbs.
What is "-ly"?
200
This means something fleeting and gone too soon.
What is ephemeral?
200
The story is told from this point of view - and to achieve this effect for readers.
What is 2nd person, and to bring the reader into the story and receive advice from Yunior?
200
Papi and Wilquins' fathers are alike in this way.
What is their constant threat of abuse/violence?
200
Mami sends the boys to the campo during the summer when she works here.
What is the chocolate factory?
300
The grammatical problem(s) with the phrase "Me Tarzan, You Jane" is this.
What are the pronouns?
300
These situations are based on possible ideas or scenarios rather than actual ones.
What are hypothetical situations?
300
This is the Puerto Rican kid who "could eat you if he wanted to."
Who is Howie?
300
Yunior's favorite word this year is "stupidos" and he is afraid to speak to girls, allowing readers to infer this.
What is Yunior is middle school age (or younger)?
300
Rafa brings Yunior to Ocoa to achieve this goal.
What is seeing Ysrael's face beneath the mask.
400
Possessive, object, and subject.
What are three types of pronouns?
400
Meleny's moods were always changing, leading Dasbry to accuse her of being this.
What is capricious?
400
This is the full and complete title of the story.
What is "How to Date a Brown Girl, Black Girl, White Girl or Halfie"?
400
Explain Diaz's choice of having Papi conduct his affair with a Puerto Rican woman.
What is using the rivalry of each nation to demonize the woman who endangers Yunior's family?
400
Ysrael will travel here for surgery.
What is the United States?
500
Identify any and all nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, pronouns and interjections in the following: "Hey, I discovered your coin is quite rarely documented and is valuable."
What is: Hey - interjection I - pronoun discovered - verb your - pronoun coin - noun is - verb quite - adverb rarely - adverb documented - verb is - verb valuable - adjective
500
Spell this vocabulary word meaning "related by blood."
What is c-o-n-s-a-n-g-u-i-n-e-o-u-s?
500
If the girl you bring home is from the Park or Society Hill, this is where the government cheese must go - and why.
What is in the cabinet above the oven so she doesn't know how poor you are?
500
Yunior's carsickness is a motif that represents this.
What is the sickness he feels at hiding Papi's affair from Mami?
500
Rafa grows angrier with Ysrael when Rafa learns this about Ysrael.
What is Ysrael's extensive contact with his father, as compared to Yunior and Rafa's once-a-year contact from their own?