Tortilla Flat | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapters 1-5

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

Protagonist.

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

The army.

3. What has Danny learned that he has inherited?

Two small houses.

4. From whom does Danny get his inheritance?

Grandfather.

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

Red wine.

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

30 days in jail.

7. Why does Danny receive the sentence he does?

He is a veteran.

8. Who is the jailer?

Tito Ralph.

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

Go out for more wine.

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

Paisano.

11. Who is Pilon?

Danny's friend.

12. What does Danny ask Pilon?

To share Danny's house.

13. Everything in Danny's house is ____________________.

rickety.

14. Why...
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