Which characters personify good and evil?
Where does Tony’s family go the morning after Lupito’s murder?
What does the bridge symbolize?
Where are Tony’s brothers at the beginning of the novel?
What do the Luna uncles rub on Tony’s forehead in his dream and why is it significant?
Name the speaker: "You are growing, and growth is change. Accept the change, make it a part of your strength-"
What is significant about the fact that Uncle Lucas vomits up his own hair?
Name the speaker: “Japanese sol'jer, Japanese sol'jer ! "
Why is Uncle Lucas cursed?
What does Tony dream on the night before Ultima arrives?
Identify a time when Tony acted as a priest.
What is the real reason Father Byrnes punishes Florence?
Name the speaker: "Ah, I got a job here, start today. So I figure I can do as well here as they do up in Vegas."
What does Narciso’s garden symbolize?
Identify one scene in which Florence is functioning as a “Christ figure”.
Why is Narciso not taken seriously by the men on the bridge?
How does Tenorio kill Ultima?
The main theme of the novel which involves Tony’s growth as an individual is called:
What does Tony’s father tell him about evil?
Where is Andrew when Narciso asks him for help?
What is symbolic about Gabriel’s job?
Name the speaker: “I have come to lift a curse. It is your daughters who do evil that are the brujas."
How is Ultima “tested”?
Why is the river stained?
Which of Tony’s friends does Tony “throw”?
Name the speaker: "I can 't believe what I have seen... Are all the fish that big here? "
What does Tenorio lose when the owl attacks him?
Identify three things that the Marez men bring to Tony in his dream.
Name the speaker: “May your soul be damned and go to hell ! "
What penance does Tony give to Florence?
What does Rosie’s place represent?
What does the priest do when Tenorio brings his daughter to the church to be buried?
Why does Ultima come to live with the Marez family?
What is Tony’s teacher’s name?
What does Miss Maestra tell Tony on hislast day of first grade?
Who introduces Tony to the myth of the Golden Carp?
What does Ultima first tell Tony’s grandfather when she is asked to heal Lucas?
Identify two characteristics of Chicano literature.
Identify three qualities of the sea that the Marez family displays.
Identify three qualities of the moon that the Luna family displays.
Why is Lupito not entirely responsible for the murder?
Name the speaker: "So I ask myself... how can God let this happen to a kid. I never asked to be born. But he gives me birth, a soul, and puts me here to punish me.”
Why does Tenorio believe that Ultima is a witch?
W hat does Lupito say to Tony just before Lupito is shot?
Where is Narciso killed?
What does Ultima do that sets a chain of events in place?
Name the speaker: "I have not sinned!"
Which of Tony’s worries is evident in the dream in which he sees Ultima in a cottonwood coffin?
How specifically does Florence die?
Who are the giants?
Identify three “threes.”
What does Tony feel when Ultima first touches him?
Describe the Golden Carp’s appearance and character.
What has happened in Narciso’s life to cause him to want to drink?
What is magical realism?
What does water symbolize?
Who is the patron saint of El Puerto?
What is significant about the coyotes?
Why were so few students at school the day of the Christmas program?
What is significant about the fact that Tony is a “Juan” ?
Why does Tony question the justice of God after Narciso is killed?
How does Tony’s father explain the fact that Tony was not given the understanding he expected at his first communion?
Identify one symbol of Gabriel’s “quiet desperation”
What two things does Ultima tell Tony to burn under the juniper tree?
Which character looks like an angel?
What discrimination does Tony experience at school? (be specific)
Why does Gabriel object, at first, to Maria’s suggestion that Ultima come and live with them?
What is significant about the location of Tony’s house?
Which building is the tallest in town and why is that significant?
What does Ultima tell Tony that the owl connects her to?
Whose house is haunted?
Name the speaker: "Grande, Deborah, Theresa! Come quick! Tony had been promoted two grades! Oh I knew he would be a man of learning, maybe a priest!”
What are the names of Tony’s three brothers?