The Feast of the Goat Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 26:

1.

What literary device does the novel use when it describes Trujillo as "examining the colonel the way an entomologist examines an insect difficult to classify" (59)? (from Chapter 5)

Metaphor.

Imagery.

Simile.

Allusion.

2.

What does Salvador mean when he says his father has killed him? (from Chapter 21)

His father has given him up to Ramfis, thereby leading to his arrest and execution.

His father's denunciation of him lead him to attempt suicide.

His father's denunciation of him was more devastating than Ramfis' torture.

His father has told Ramfis to kill him.

3.

What image does the novel use to describe Ramfis' persecution of anti-Trujillistas? (from Chapter 17)

The image of divine punishment.

The image of a hunt.

The image of a slaughter.

The image of a natural disaster.

4.

How does the novel stylistically represent Pupo's confusion and despair? (from Chapter 20)

By narrating the events through Pupo's first-person perspective.

Through the jumps in time and the two juxtaposed narratives: the real events and what Pupo should have done.

The style becomes gradually more abstract and disjointed, particularly during the torture scenes.

By omitting the description of emotions or thoughts, the novel mirror's Pupo's sleep-like state.

5.

Urania describes the way Dominican gaze at her as "the way male dogs look at female dogs, stallions look at mares, boars look at sows" (9). What theme of the book does this introduce? (from Chapter 1)

The rape culture and machismo of the Dominican Republic.

The affinity between humans and animals.

The racism of the Trujillo regime.

The sexual liberation of Dominicans.

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