In the Time of the Butterflies

“Now after thirty-four years, the commemorations and interviews and presentations of posthumous honors have almost stopped, so that for months at a time, _____ is able to take up her own life again. But she’s long since resigned herself to Novembers.”

• Minerva

• Mate

• Patria

• Dedé

Each visitor would break my heart all over again, but I would sit on this very rocker and listen for as long as they had something to say. It was the least I could do, being the one saved.

• Minerva

• Mate

• Patria

• Dedé

Their life together had collapsed. From puppydog devotion, he had moved on to a moody bosiness complicated with intermittent period of dogged remorse . . . True to her nature, ________ had made the best of things, eager for order, eager for peace.

• Minerva

• Mate

• Patria

• Dedé

"Bug Eye stood before me, holding a rod with a little switch. When he touched me with it, my whole body jumped with exquisite pain. I felt my spirit snapping loose, soaring above my body and looking down at the scene."

• Minerva

• Mate

• Patria

• Dedé

My hand shook. I would not tell the others. I t could only make things worse, and Mate's asthmas had just begun to calm down. But in my own head, I was working it all out . . .The soldier was a plant. How foolish we'd been . . .

• Minerva

• Mate

• Patria

• Dedé

"That moment, I understood her hatred. My family had not been personally hurt by Trujillo, just as before losing my baby, Jesus had not taken anything away from me. But others had been suffering great losses."

• Minerva

• Mate

• Patria

• Dedé

The fear is the worse part. Every time I hear footsteps coming down the hals, or the clink of the key turning in the lock, I'm tempted to curl up in the corner like a hurt animal, whimpering, wanting to be safe.

• Minerva

• Mate

• Patria

• Dedé

Who is the Narrator of this Chapter?

• Patria

• Minerva

• Mate

• Dede

What does Patria keep offering?

• Her house

• Her Money

• Her family

• Her body

Patria doesn't offer herself as a sacrifice to God because she fears what God may ask from her

• True

• False