Examen de Dos Palabras

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How did Belisa make her living?

Selling words

What did Belisa write the speech on?

Sheet of paper

How did Belisa describe the Colonel's voice?

Soft and well-modulated as a professor's

How many successful weeks of campaigning did the Colonel campaign for, when his obsession with the two words Belisa gave him was introduced into the story?

12

How much money did Belisa give to the priest that taught her to read and write?

20 pesos

How many times did Belisa read the speech aloud?

3

With how much money did Belisa buy a dictionary?

3 pesos

How much did Belisa charge for delivering verses from memory?

5 centavos

How much did Belisa charge for a secret word to drive away melancholy?

50 centavos

How much did Belisa charge for the improvements of the quality of dreams?

7 centavos

How much did Belisa charge for her to write love letters?

9 centavos

What did the newspaper's sports page that Belisa discovered writing on have on it; what was it talking about?

A boxing match

What was radiating from Belisa's hips according to the Colonel?

A fiery heat

To anyone who paid Belisa 50 centavos in trade, what did she give them?

A gift of a secret word to drive away melancholy

Who trained Belisa to read and write?

A priest

Where was Belisa taken after she was kidnapped for the first time?

A rebel camp in the hills

What did El Mulato offer to Belisa to make her feel better/to regain her strength

A sip of liquor laced with gunpowder (from his canteen)

How long did Belisa take to write the speech?

About a day ("all night and a good part of the following day")

How did Belisa discover writing?

Accidentally

It seemed to Belisa that selling words would be what?

An honorable alternative

When was Belisa first captured by El Mulato and the Colonel's men?

August morning

Why did Belisa survive the struggle?

Because she was stubborn (so much so that she survived to cross through that hell)

What is the name of the main character?

Belisa Crepusculario

How did Belisa carry stories from town to town?

By memory

How did the Colonel become more and more obsessive with the two words Belisa gives him?

By repeating them

Where does "Dos Palabras" take place; what country?

Chile

What was the Colonel's skin like according to Belisa?

Dark

When were the Presidential elections to take place?

December

When did Belisa bury 4 younger brothers and sisters by herself?

During one interminable drought

Who is the Colonel's faithful aide?

El Mulato

Who was a giant know throughout the land for the speed of his knife and his loyalty to his chief?

El Mulato

Who's approval was this: "If after they've heard it three times, the boys are still standing there with their mouths hanging open, it must mean that the thing's damn good..."

El Mulato

(True or False) Belisa delays arriving at her destination because she always stops to help the people that she encounters on the road.

False

(True or False) Only one of Belisa's siblings went with her on her trip.

False

(True or False) To understand more, Belisa buys a dictionary that she kept forever.

False

Both the Colonel and El Mulato spent their lives doing what?

Fighting in the Civil War

When the Colonel finished his speech, what did his soldiers do?

Fire their pistols into the air and set off firecrackers

Why did El Mulato get mad at Belisa; didn't like her anymore?

He thought Belisa had cursed at him; he believed them to be an "irrecoverable curse" (the flame of his desire was extinguished)

Why did El Mulato go looking for Belisa?

He was saddened by watching his chief (the Colonel) decline like a man with a death sentence on his head?

Why did the Colonel want to be president?

He was truly troubled when he saw people look at him with terror (for years he had been sleeping in the open air, bitten by mosquitoes, eating iguales and snake soup... these weren't it)

Who gave Belisa her name?

Herself

Who saved Belisa's life?

Herself

What prevented El Mulato from cutting Belisa to shreds with his whip?

His fear of her tongue

Where did El Mulato find Belisa?

In a village in the far south

Where did Belisa grow up?

In an inhospitable land

Who wrote "Dos Palabras"?

Isabel Allende

Why did Belisa throw her dictionary into the sea?

It was not her intention to defraud her customers with packaged words

What was the literature that Belisa discovered writing on?

Newspaper

Did Belisa stop to help those struggling on the journey they were making like herself?

No

Had Belisa ever seen El Mulato before he kid napped her for the first time?

No

Did Belisa have an occupation (or virtue) before the age of 12?

No (she did not have an occupation)

Who went with Belisa on her trip away from her small town?

No one (she was by herself)

Can the Colonel read?

No; he's illiterate

How many words were exchanged in all the trip that El Mulato and Belisa took together?

None

How much interest did the Colonel have in Belisa's secret words in the beginning?

None at all

Where did the Colonel speak in a town?

On a platform in the middle of the plaza

How much did Belisa charge the Colonel for writing the speech?

One peso

What had El Mulato's desire for Belisa turn into?

Rage

What did the rebels throw Belisa like across the ramp of El Mulato's mount?

Sea bag

What months did the Colonel say his speech?

September, October, and November

Why did Belisa not dare refuse such an assignment (none like this had she ever accepted before) to write a speech for the Colonel?

She feared the Colonel would burst into tears and El Mulato would shoot her between the eyes

What was "more to it than that" when referring to the fact why she accepted the assignment of writing a speech for the Colonel?

She felt a "throbbing warmth beneath her skin"

Why didn't Belisa stop to help those struggling on the journey they were making like herself?

She had no strength to waste in acts of compassion

How did Belisa conclude that "Belisa" would be her name?

She searched until she found the poetry of "beauty" and "twilight" (and cloaked herself in it)

Why did Belisa give herself her own name?

She was born into a family so poor they did not even have names to give their children ("not because she had ben baptized with that name or given it by her mother")

What was Belisa doing when El Mulato found him?

Sitting under her tent reciting her rosary of news

What direction was Belisa heading when she left her small town?

South (following the mirage of water)

What else (other than taking a sip of liquor) did Belisa do when she came to and prior to going to the Colonel?

Splash water on her face

What was the newspaper that Belisa discovered writing turned to?

Sports page

What was Belisa's breath like according to the Colonel?

Sweetmint

El Mulato and the Colonel's men handed out what and painted his name on all what with what?

Sweets, the walls in gold frost

How did El Mulato suggest that the Colonel becomes president?

Take it by force

Who was the favorite candidate in the presidential election?

The Colonel

Who was the most feared man in all the land?

The Colonel

Why was Belisa kidnapped the first time?

The Colonel needed her services

How did Belisa describe the Colonel's eyes?

The eyes of a ferocious puma

What did Belisa smell like according to the Colonel?

The scent of a mountain cat (el olor de animal montuno)

What was the source of the Colonel's "befuddlement"?

The two secret words Belisa gave him (that were buried like two daggers in his gut)

What was the commoners'/people's reaction to the clarity of the Colonel's proposals and the poetic lucidity of his argument?

They were dazzled

What did the Colonel have to do to inflame his senses with the memory of Belisa's feral scent, her fiery heat, the whisper of her hair, and her sweetmint breath (el aliento de yerbabuena) in his ear?

Thinks of the two words (Belisa gave him)

What did Belisa do with her dictionary after reading and memorizing all the words in it?

Threw it into the sea

What did the Colonel want?

To be president

What does the Colonel ask of Belisa to do for him?

To sell him the words for a speech

(True or False) A priest taught Belisa how to read and write.

True

(True or False) Belisa discovered writing by chance.

True

(True or False) Belisa gave herself her own name.

True

(True or False) Belisa never have had a job (work) before she left her town.

True

(True or False) Belisa's profession/occupation es a seller of words.

True

(True or False) The place where Belisa lived when she was little had a climate with much change.

True

How innocent is Belisa?

Virgin

What does the Colonel know?

War (he says)

When did Belisa decide to leave her little town she grew up in?

When she realized (after burying her siblings) that her turn to die was next

How did the Colonel want to to become president?

Win the popular election

Had Belisa been waiting for El Mulato when he arrived to get her the second time?

Yes

Was Belisa with a client when she was kid napped for the first time by El Mulato and the Colonel's men?

Yes

Every time Belisa gave someone a secret word, was it unique to the individual?

Yes (never to be used in this universe or the Beyond)

Was there dramatic weather/climate change where Belisa grew up?

Yes (sometimes great floods, sometimes long droughts)

Did El Mulato desire Belisa, and did he ever touch her?

Yes, no

(True or False) The first time that Belisa sees writing is on a poster (on a wall) that announces a boxing match.

False

How much did Belisa charge for her to invent insults for irreconciliable enemies?

12 centavos


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