Tortilla Flat Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Chapters 1-5

1. What is Danny's role in TORTILLA FLAT?

2. Where has Danny just returned from as the novel opens?

3. What has Danny learned that he has inherited?

4. From whom does Danny get his inheritance?

5. What does Danny drink when he learns of the inheritance?

6. What sentence does Danny get for being drunk and disorderly?

7. Why does Danny receive the sentence he does?

8. Who is the jailer?

9. What do Danny and the jailer do while Danny is still incarcerated?

10. What word meaning "friend" is used in TORTILLA FLAT?

11. Who is Pilon?

12. What does Danny ask Pilon?

13. Everything in Danny's...
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