Short Stories
Authors
Major Themes
Bless Me, Ultima
Literary Elements
100
The setting for "The Handsomest Drowned Man"
What is a small town on the coast?
100
Where Gabriel Garcia Marquez is from
What is Colombia?
100
Magical Realism was also a movement in what: a. Art b. Music c. Theater
What is Art?
100
The evil man in the novel who wants to kill Ultima
Who is Tenorio?
100
"The reply rolled like silent thunder through my dream"
What is a simile?
200
How Azucena becomes trapped
What is a mudslide caused by an earthquake in her village?
200
The country where Isabel Allende is from
What is Chile?
200
In the "Street of the Canon", the story of the devil who appears without notice is known as a what? a. Myth b. Dream level c. Folktale
What is a folktale?
200
The spirit animal of Ultima
What is an owl?
200
"The brown swirling waters lapped at my feet, and the monotonous chirping of the grillos as they sang in the trees"
What is sensory language?
300
How Rolf meets Azucena
What is his job as a journalist?
300
The style of writing GGM is known for
What is magical realism?
300
The story of the Golden Carp is a __________ to explain ____________
What is a myth to explain sin/evil/redemption?
300
What happens when Antonio takes his first communion
What is silence from God?
300
"The blood of the Lunas is strong in him" "He is a Marez, the vaqueros shouted. His forefathers were conquistadores...He is his father's blood!" What does this battle represent for Tony throughout the novel?
What is a conflict?
400
The setting of the "The Street of the Canon"
What is a small village in Mexico?
400
Author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
Who is GGM?
400
One of the ways religion influences the authors we have read
BMU-Tony needs to decide to be a priest or not Streets-people believe in the devil
400
The role of the Golden Carp in the myth
What is the savior of the people?
400
"He (the father) says that we must build a castle across the river, on the lonely hill of the mockingbirds" The castle is a _____________ representing the father's dream
What is a symbol?
500
How Rolf changes at the end of the story
What is he lets his past affect his present by allowing certain memories to surface
500
Ms. McCormick's favorite Latin American author of the ones we read
Who is Isabel Allende?
500
One of the ways geography influences the stories we read
BMU-llano vs. farm HDM-isolation of village Street-division between towns Clay-poverty in mountain areas; isolation of certain people
500
What Lucas vomits during the exorcism
What is a ball of hair?
500
"They killed the owl and made Ultima powerless, then they beheaded her and drank her blood" This is an example of _____________ since it occurs much before Ultima's death
What is foreshadowing?