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Dengue Boy Quiz

Michel Nieva

This Study Guide consists of approximately 24 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Dengue Boy.

Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva

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+Chapters Summary and Analysis

Pages 210 - 214

Pages 218 - 220

Symbols and Symbolism

Themes and Motifs

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Michel Nieva

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Questions 1-5 of 15:

1.

Why does Dengue Boy start seeing himself as Dengue Girl? (from Pages 218 - 220)

Girls are more feisty and intolerant of violence than boys.

If he is a girl, his peers could get in trouble for bullying him.

He has always felt that he was born into the wrong body.

Female mosquitos bite, infect, and kill, while males only procreate.

2.

What does the narrator have trouble describing? (from Pages 218 - 220)

The appearance of the beach and the sky.

The exact moment of Dengue Boy's initiation into adulthood,

The ways in which the shift in the wind inspires Dengue Boy's internal shift.

The distinct way that Dengue Boy feels when he is being bullied.

3.

What does El Dulce tell the boys to do? (from Pages 214- 218)

Take out their penises and pull on them.

Throw rocks at the seagulls.

Prick their fingers and suck on the blood.

Burn their arms with cigarettes.

4.

Why does Dengue Boy have to go to camp? (from Pages 214- 218)

His mother thinks it will help him learn arts and crafts.

His mother is working.

His mother thinks it will help him make new friends.

His mother cannot afford a babysitter.

5.

Why do the boys start taunting Dengue Boy? (from Pages 214- 218)

He eats a blood sausage behind a tree.

He does not talk.

He does not follow El Dulce's instruction.

He is reading alone on a rock.

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