About the Author | Getting to know the Sisters | Literally or Figuratively | Final jeopardy |
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Who is Julia Alvarez
The author's name
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What are the name of the sisters
Dede, Mate, Patricia, Minerva
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What is a metaphor
When Papa says, "'A daughter is a needle in the heart'"(p.12) he is quoting a
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What is courage (and/or) strength
The sisters died leaving the Dominican Republic with the thought of
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Where is the Dominican Republic
Being born in New York, at 3 months she moved to __________
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Who is Dede
Mate, Patricia, Minerva were all murdered on their way home. ________ was the only sister that survived
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What is Personification
Giving a nonliving thing a human characteristic, like "The rain drives on , in every bohio and small conuco(p.116)" is an example of
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What is courage (and/or) strength
The sisters died leaving the Dominican Republic with the thought of
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What is the underground plot
Julia Alvarez's father and the Mirabal sisters were both apart of
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Who is Minerva
She was the first sister that had the courage to go against Trujillo's dictatorship.
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What is a simile
"I felt my heart lifting, my cross light as a feather"(214).
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What is courage (and/or) strength
The sisters died leaving the Dominican Republic with the thought of
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Who is Trujillo
Alvarez and her family moved back to New York to get away from their dictator ___________
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Who is Trujillo's Famous Secret Police
As the mirabal sisters were coming home, they were kidnapped and murdered by
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What is friendship
Minerva gave Sinita a button symbolizing
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What is courage (and/or) strength
The sisters died leaving the Dominican Republic with the thought of
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