Patria
Patria's career goal when she is growing up.
What is Nun?
Minerva's career goal when she is growing up.
What is a Lawyer?
Dede explains to the interviewer in Chapter One that sister _______, nine years younger than Minerva, was twenty-five when she died.
Who is Mariá Teresa?
Trujillo's nickname is this.
What is El Jefe?
She meets _______ Gonzalez, falls in love, marries, and has two children. Pregnant a third time, she suffers a miscarriage, and wonders if God is punishing her for not becoming a nun.
Who is Pedrito?
Minerva begins her story with how she persuades Papá to allow his three eldest daughters to attend the convent school at _________ __________.
What is Inmaculada Concepción?
Dede explains to the interviewer in Chapter One that her sister ______, a year older than Dedé, was the religious one.
Who is Patria?
_____ Lovatón, a student at the school, is one of Trujillo’s many girlfriends. She becomes pregnant and is sent to Miami to live in exile.
Who is Lina?
Minerva discovers that Papá has a mistress and this many children by her.
What is four?
The daughter of María Teresa and Leandro.
Who is Jacqueline?
____ gives Dedé a letter for Minerva asking for Minerva to join him in exile. Dedé reads the letter and burns it instead of giving it to Minerva.
Who is Lio?
The family attends one of Trujillo’s parties, and he suspects that _______ is conspiring with Lío. Trujillo dances obscenely with her, and she slaps him in the face.
Who is Minerva?
A brave school friend of Minerva, also called Sina. As an adult, she is imprisoned with Minerva and María Teresa.
Who is Sinita?
This literary element, starting with F, is used in the below sentence:
"You're exposing yourselves to an accident by going down all together," Dede began, "that's what you're doing."
What is Foreshadowing?
Rafael Trujillo reigned in power for ____ years.
What is 30 years?
Because she does not become a __________ and therefore is not killed with her sisters, it is Dedé who maintains their memory. (Spanish for Butterfly)
What is Mariposa?
Name of the Governor who is close with Trujillo.
Who is Governor de la Maza?