Bless Me Ultima Review Questions – Flashcards
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Almost seven
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How old is Antonio when Ultima comes to live with his family?
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She is old and lonely and the Marez family wants to return a favor
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Why does Ultima live with the Marez family?
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New Mexico Near the llano Guadalupe Near El Puerto Las Pasturas
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Describe the setting of the novel
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Gabriel-father Maria-mother Antonio-youngest child Andrew-second son Eugene-third son Leon-oldest son Deborah-oldest daughter Theresa-youngest daughter
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Name and describe the member of the Marez family
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Curandera, or natural healer(not a doctor)
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What was Ultima's occupation?
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About whether he would be of the Marez or Luna bloodline, vaquero, or priest/farmer
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What was the conflict between Gabriel and María concerning Antonio's future?
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Owl
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What pet did Ultima bring with her?
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Chavez came to the Marez family talking about how Lupito had killed Chavez's brother, the sheriff, and he took Gabriel with him to shoot Lupito, which the eventually did
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Describe the incident with Chavez?
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They call him the inquisitor because he asks many questions
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What did Ultima and the family call Antonio, and why?
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When he saw them around the side of church and he threw Horse which is when he joined their gang
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How did Antonio become a part of the gang with Abel, Bones, and Horse?
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That they all have spirits
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How did Ultima feel about plants, the river, and other parts of nature?
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Pray the rosary
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What did the Marez family always do after supper?
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She says the Lunas are quiet like the moon and that the Marez are wild like the ocean
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How did Ultima describe the Luna and Marez families?
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To visit the Luna side of his family
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Why did Antonio's family go to El Puerto?
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He enjoyed it
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How did Antonio describe the time spent in El Puerto?
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Excited and sad to be away from his mother
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How did Antonio feel about going to school?
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His difference in culture(Hispanic) and lack of English proficiency made him an outcast among the children
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What was Antonio's biggest obstacle in school?
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Antonio discovered that his Mexican traditions were different
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What did Antonio discover about his cultural background on the first day of school?
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Move to California
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What did Gabriel Marez want to do once his sons returned from the war?
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Moving somewhere else and Andrew and Eugene wanted to leave while Andrew wanted to stay and he left later. Also, they talked about Marez blood and how Antonio would fulfill their parents' dreams
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What did Antonio's brothers talk about doing, and what were their opinions on the subject?
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Seeing the women in Rosie's house and his brothers entering as well as loosing his innocence
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What was Antonio's dream in Chapter 9 about?
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They wanted to leave and live their lives but their parents wanted them to stay and fulfill their(the parents) dreams
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What was the conflict between the Marez boys and their parents?
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Their Marez blood
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In María's opinion, what was the cause of the boys' desires?
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Leon and Eugene finally left but Andrew stayed
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What did the boys finally do?
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That he cannot be one because it is too late(or fulfill his parents' wishes)
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Antonio asked Andrew if he (Andrew) would become a farmer or a priest. What was Andrew's reply?
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He got promoted two grades to third grade
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What happened to Antonio at the end of first grade?
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Ancient people who lived in current-day New Mexico were given fruitful lands in the valley but they were not allowed to eat the carp. Once there was a drought and the people had to eat the carp to survive. The Gods were angry and wanted to kill the people, but one kind God argued that they turn the people into carp and that he became the golden carp, the ruler of the carp people.
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Briefly retell Samuel's story of the carp, including the golden carp.
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The daughters of Tenorio who laid a curse on him
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What was the supposed cause of Uncle Lucas's illness?
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An evil and ugly man who had three daughters and owned a saloon in El Puerto. His wife had been known to work spells
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Who was Tenorio Trementina?
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Gave him multiple potions to make him vomit out the hair used by Tenorio's daughters to lay the curse
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Briefly describe the way Ultima cured Lucas
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That he plants by the moon and stays drunk through the spring
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What did Antonio discover about Narciso?
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He was excited and surprisedbut torn over which God to believe
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How did Antonio feel when he saw the Golden Carp?
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The presence of the river and the lakes
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What feeling did Antonio and Cico share?
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The land would sink when it could not take the weight of sins
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How did Cico say the Golden Carp would punish people?
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Losing one's innocence and becoming a man was learning to sin
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Antonio described his mother's definition of learning to sin. What was it?
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The stories and legends of his ancestors and of their glory and tragedy
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What did Antonio learn from Ultima's stories?
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Tenorio's daughter died and as revenge, Tenorio brought the men to suspect Ultima of being a witch and to kill her
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Why were Tenorio and the men coming to the Marez home?
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Told them did not need darkness to hide their deeds; that they were out playing vigilantes
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What did Narciso do say to shame the men who came with Tenorio?
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Of being a witch and killing his daughter
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Of what did Tenorio accuse Ultima?
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A witch could not walk through a door with the sign of a cross, and she passed it
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What was the test for being a witch, and did Ultima pass it?
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His eye was scratched out by Ultima's owl
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What happened to Tenorio?
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The two needles that had been used to make the cross
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What did Antonio find on the ground after the men had gone?
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Whether there was a forgiving God, why the Golden Carp and God chose to punish the people, and if the Virgin Mary was forgiving.
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About what was Antonio thinking as the family rode to El Puerto?
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The priest refused to allow those things to happen
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What happened at the church when Tenorio went to have the mass for the dead and a church burial for his daughter?
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Tenorio was not able to influence the people anymore
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What was the effect of the priest's stand on Tenorio and the townspeople?
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That they let Antonio spend next summer in El Puerto with them
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What did the Luna uncles request of Antonio's parents?
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He had a feeling that everything would be changed before he got home again
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Why did Antonio always look back when he walked away from the house?
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By punching Ernie, so others believed if he would take on Ernie, he could take on anyone
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How did Antonio stop the others from teasing him about Ultima?
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The girls did not show up so the boys had to play their parts. Abel wet his pants, Florence hit the lightbulb and broke it, and Horse played the Virgin Mary. Bones did not come down and Antonio was Joseph
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Briefly describe the Christmas play. What problems arose, and how were they dealt with?
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Tenorio and Narciso in a bar and they were fighting
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Whom did Antonio see as he was walking home from school after the play, and what were they doing?
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He was going to the Márez home to warn Ultima that Tenorio was on his way.
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What was Narciso's final destination after the fight, and why?
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He went to Rosie's house to tell Andrew to go home to warn Ultima. Andrew did not leave and said not to worry
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Where did Narciso go on his way to his final destination? Why did he go there, and what was the result of his visit?
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Antonio witnessed the fight and Tenorio killed Narciso but when Tenorio threatened Antonio, he had run out of bullets, Antonio witnessed Narciso's last confession
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Describe the fight at the juniper tree. Tell who witnessed it, and what the result of the fight was.
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When Antonio reached home, he was feverish and fell asleep into a dream in which he saw an unforgiving God, the blood of Lupito and Narciso mix, a mob searching for Ultima's blood, and his brothers turning into the Trementina sisters who kill him
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What happened after Antonio reached his home?
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Pneumonia
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What illness did Antonio get after he saw the murder?
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That he will speak with God and God will answer and that he will have knowledge of God
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What did María tell Antonio would happen when he made his first holy communion?
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Leon and Eugene arrived
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What event broke the monotony of the storm?
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Mad and frustrated, because he knew that they would be leaving eventually and he reminisced about old times
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What was Gabriel's response to his sons' visit, and why?
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He goes with them
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What did Andrew do when León and Eugene left?
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The conflict of good vs. evil and why God acts how he does
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What did Antonio think about much of the time?
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He thought he would understand after he made his communion
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What did Antonio think would help him understand his dreams and questions?
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Tenorio, and he threatened Ultima
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Whom did Antonio meet on the way home from school, and what happened?
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They blamed it on the atomic bomb that had been exploded to the south of them
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The people thought a special event was causing the dust storms and harsh winter. What was the event?
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If God is fair or not and if God is real or not
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What was the topic of the discussion between Florence and Antonio in Chapter 17?
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Florence, because he imagined him suffering in the afterlife for not accepting God
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Who haunted Antonio's nightmares, and why?
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If he believed in the Golden Carp
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What did Samuel think would make things easier for Florence?
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The other boys forced him to hear their confessions as he "acted" as their priest and he was beaten up when he let Florence go without punishment. Horse made a hole through the wall in the girl's bathroom and Bones had seen people "having babies"
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Describe the events that happened when Antonio was on his way to church for his first confession.
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By God because he took his mother and father away from him when he needed them the most and made his sisters workers at Rosie's house
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Florence said he had not sinned, but had been sinned against. Who had sinned against him, and how?
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Antonio expected to hear God telling him the answers to all of his questions after he made his first communion but in reality, he did not gain this understanding
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What did Antonio expect to happen after he made his first communion, and what really did happen?
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Went to confession every Saturday and took communion every Sunday but the understanding was still not there
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What did Antonio do every weekend after Easter, and what was the result?
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Dishes and utensils were crashing and falling. Stones were falling from the sky.
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Describe the curse on the family near Agua Negra.
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The spirits of three native men who had not been buried properly years ago had been tortured and controlled by the brujas to perform misdeeds
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What was the cause of the curse, according to Ultima?
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She had Gabriel and Téllez build a Comanche funeral platform. She placed three bundles on it and had the men set it all on fire. When all had burned, she said the curse was lifted
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How did Ultima remove the curse?
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He took the livers of his brothers and threw them into the River of the Carp because they wanted rest from their Marez blood. His brothers rested after that
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What was Antonio's dream about the night they returned from Agua Negra?
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He said there were many gods-of beauty, of magic, of garden and backyards
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What did Cico tell Antonio about God/gods?
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To choose between the god of the church and the beauty of the here and now
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What did Cico say Antonio's choice was?
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They found out that he had dived into the water and had not come up
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What happened when the boys went to tell Florence about the golden carp?
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He dreamed about Narciso, Lupito, and Florence. He saw a priest desecrating an altar with pigeons' blood. He saw Tenorio killing Ultima's night-spirit. He asked why he had witnessed so much violence and all the "Gods" that he believed in had died
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What did Antonio dream about that night?
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They agreed that he should spend the summer with the Lunas on their farm
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What did Ultima and Antonio's parents decide he should do for the summer?
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That it might be time to give up the old differences between the Márez and Luna ways
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When Antonio and his father were talking on the way to El Puerto, Gabriel made an unusual statement. What was it?
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He said it was having sympathy for people
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What did Gabriel say understanding was?
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Tenorio's daughter died
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What trouble occurred in the town later in the summer?
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Pedro said he would take Antonio and drive to Guadalupe to warn Ultima
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What did the uncles plan to do?
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Tenorio tried to run him down and kill him, but he dived into a ditch to save himself and then ran 10 miles back to Guadalupe to warn Ultima
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What happened to Antonio on his way back to his Grandfather's house, and what was the result?
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He realized that it was Ultima's spirit
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What did Antonio realize about Ultima's owl?
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Tenorio shot and killed the owl
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What happened just as Antonio reached his home?
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To gather her medicines and herbs and to take them along the river and burn everything and to bury the owl at a forked juniper tree
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What did Ultima ask Antonio to do for her?
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He thought they were just the ceremony that was required by custom
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What did Antonio think about the upcoming mass of the dead and burial for Ultima
