Chapters 9-10 (Nueve-Diez)
1.
What was
Antonio's dream in Chapter 9 about?
2.
What was the
conflict between the M‡rez boys and their parents?
3.
In Mar’a's
opinion, what was the cause of the boys' desires?
4.
What did the
boys finally do?
5.
Antonio
asked Andrew if he (Andrew) would become a farmer or a priest. What was
- Andrew's reply?
- What happened to
Antonio at the end of first grade?
- Briefly retell
Samuel's story of the carp, including the golden carp.
- What was the supposed
cause of Uncle Lucas's illness?
- Who was Tenorio
Trementina?
- Briefly
describe the way Ultima cured Lucas.
- What do AntonioÕs
brothers spend most of their time doing?
- Why
is the blood of spring called the bad blood?Why do AntonioÕs brothers not
want to go to California with his father?
14. How have AntonioÕs brothers been affected by the war?
- What was foreshadowed
in AntonioÕs dream about his brothers?
- Whom did Andrew and
Tony try to beat over the bridge?
- Why did the family
think that AntonioÕs uncle was bewitched?
- Why didnÕt Andrew go
along with Leon and Eugene to work?
- Who did the family
blame for the uncleÕs condition?
- What happened when
AntonioÕs sick uncle breathed on the clay dolls Ultima made?