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House of the Scorpion Chapter Review Questions
8
th
Grade Language ArtsSlide2
Chapter 1
What is the setting of this chapter?
What is Eduardo trying to do?
How old are the frozen cells?
How many of the cells survived the process?
What happens to most clones? Why didn’t it happen to this clone?Slide3
Chapter 2
What do you think “mi
vida
” means?
Why is it significant that Celia calls Matt this?
Besides Celia, what is Matt’s only connection to the outside world?
What did Matt see & hear outside the house one day when Celia was at work?
What was his reaction?
What didn’t Celia want Matt to call her? Why?
Why did Matt have trouble understanding the word “loaned.”?Slide4
Chapter 3
Why couldn’t Matt go outside to visit with the children?
What motivated Matt to break the window? What happened to him?
Where did the children take Matt?
What was discovered on Matt’s foot?
How did Steven’s father react to Matt being brought to the house? Slide5
Chapter 4
How do the children describe clones?
Where is Matt taken?
How does Rosa treat Matt?
How is Maria different than the others?
What does she do for Matt?
Why do you think Celia told Matt stories about
chupacabras
and other monsters?
Why does Maria stay with Matt? What are the consequences of this decision? Slide6
Chapter 5
What steps did Rosa take to
make Matt’s
life miserable in his prison?
Who’s Tom? How did Matt and Tom’s first meeting go?
Who finally brings Celia to see Matt?
What was Celia’s plan to free Matt?Slide7
Chapter 6
What was Rosa’s warning to Matt? For whom was Matt cleaned up to meet?
What is discovered when Matt takes off his shirt?
What does El Patron decide to call Matt? Why?
What is the relationship between Matt and El Patron?
Where was Celia now living?
How long was Matt in prison?
What is the reaction of everyone to Matt? El Patron?
Who is most important to El Patron
? What
is the significance of this? What are the consequences?
Who did Matt choose as a bodyguard? Why?Slide8
Chapter 7
What was a “little off” about Tom?
Why did the doctor visit more? What power did it give to Matt?
Why is Maria leaving?
What is Matt and Maria’s relationship like?
What made Matt finally talk? Why?Slide9
Chapter 8
What are the farm workers like? What controls them?
Why won’t the horse leave the farm?
Where was their picnic? Why did Tam Lin keep this place a secret?
What was the purpose of the picnic?
What is an “
eejit
?”
What will be done about Matt’s education?Slide10
Chapter 9
What did Matt dream?
Who is Felicia?
What did Matt witness in the Secret passage?
What did the Doctor give to Felicia?
What talent did Matt discover he had?
What motivated Matt to learn? Slide11
Chapter 10
How old is El Patron? What question did he repeatedly ask his last visit?
What instructions does Celia give Matt?
What was Matt’s plan? Why did he pick this time?
Who is Mr. Ortega?
What did El Patron’s birthday mean for Matt?
Who is Mr.
MacGregor
?
How has El Patron’s health changed? Slide12
Chapter 11
Who is El Viejo?
By
moving the place cards, what is Matt
showing
? How does Maria react?
What
are the implants? Why did El Viejo
decide
against using them? Why is this
a
dangerous decision for him?
Why
did El Patron value gifts?
What
did the Farmers give as gifts?
How
has Maria and Matt’s relationship
changed
? Why? What is El Patron’s
reaction
to this?Slide13
Chapter 12
Whose clone was in the room
?
What do you think was Tom’s motivation
for
bringing Maria and Matt to the
hospital
room? Slide14
Chapter 13
An earlier line from the book was
repeated
by Matt: “Clones go to pieces
when
they get older.” What do you now
think
this statement means?
Why
did Felicia run off with Mr.
MacGregor
? Why was she brought
back
? Who is Felicia’s son?
What
is wrong with Mr.
MacGregor’s
clone
? Why did Matt not suffer the same
fate
? Slide15
Chapter 14
Why was Matt so upset by Tam Lin’s
departure
?
What
happened
to Tom? Why?
How
did Celia come to work for El
Patron
? Slide16
Chapter 15
Why can’t Matt send Maria a letter?
What
has happened to Rosa? What was
Matt’s
reaction to seeing Rosa?
What
did Matt find at the canyon? Why
do
you think Tam Lin left these things for
Matt
?
Who
has died? What was the reaction to
Matt
at the service?
What
was Matt’s reaction to
MacGregor
entering
the service? What about
him
has
changed? Slide17
Chapter 16
Why did Maria forgive Matt?
What did Matt think about faults?
What religious predicament, according to Maria, does Matt find himself in? Her answer?
How did Tom and Felicia describe El Viejo’s corpse? Why?
What does Felicia say that startles Maria? Matt?
How is El Patron going to help Matt and Maria?Slide18
Chapter 17
Why do you think Maria gave Matt the
book
about St. Francis? Matt’s
thoughts
?
What
was contained in a “History of
Opium
?” How was this different than
what
Matt expected?
What was the structure of Opium? Most
powerful
families and land?
How
was Matteo
Alcaran
(El Patron)
described
by the book?
Why
did Matt begin studying how the
empire
worked?
Who
rescued Matt from drowning? What
were
they part of? How did Matt talk to
them
?
Why
do
eejits
sleep in the field some
nights
?
Why
brought Hugh, Ralf and Wee Willie
to
Opium?
How
is Tam Lin described? What did he
do
?Slide19
Chapter 18
Where are Celia and Matt rushing to?
Why
?
What
is done to Matt upon entering the
hospital
?
What
“strange” activity was Tam Lin
doing
?
Who
would provide El Patron with a
“
donor heart?”
What
questions did Matt want to ask
Tam
Lin?
How
old is El Patron now?
What
is meant by “In the end they’re
only
rocks” (p. 183)?
What
is El Patron’s reaction to Matt
describing
St. Francis’ perspective on
giving
to the poor (p. 183-184)?
What
is a “Dragon Hoard?” Why did
Tam Lin tell the story? Slide20
Chapter 19
What happened to Matt when singing?
What
does this signify?
Why
does Tam Lin want to tell Matt the
truth
despite the watching cameras?
What
does Tam Lin say about how
they’re
treated?
How
many
eejits
have died in 100
years
?
What
did Matt begin to realize about the
role
of clones?
Why
is it ironic that El Patron refers to
Matt
as
Mi
Vida?
Why
did Matt feel he was different?
What
did Matt have to “look in the eye?”
How
old is Matt now? Slide21
Chapter 20
Why did Matt further study Tam Lin’s
books
and Maps?
Why
did El Patron come up with idea of
Eejits
?
What
happened to dead
Eejits
?
How
did they lose their humanity?
Who
wrote the book? What was the
author’s
relationship to Maria?
What
did Matt plan to do with his new
knowledge
? Slide22
Chapter 21
Who is getting married? Why did El
Patron
want this?
Why
wasn’t Matt going to the Oasis?
Where
did Matt and Maria meet?
What
does Maria think about Matt’s
soul
?
Who
is Maria engaged to? Who decided
this
?
How
was Maria different from the others
at
the wedding?
What
happened at the end of the
wedding
?Slide23
Chapter 22
Why do you think El Patron told so many
stories
to Matt about the afterlife?
What
is Maria’s plan?
What
does El Patron need to survive?
What
did the red light show? What are
the
possible dangers?
Who
betrayed Matt and Maria?
What
are all clones considered?Slide24
Chapter 23
What is Matt being tested by Willem and
the
other doctors for?
Why
was Matt allowed to keep his
intelligence
?
What
is implied by El Patron’s story and
the
quote “I am meant to have those
lives
.” (p. 232-233).
What
is said of the economies of the
USA
and
Aztlan
? How have things
changed
?
Why
does El Patron think Matt owes him
continued
life?
Why
has Celia poisoned Matt?
Why
would the technician want a snip of
Matt’s
hair?
How
did Matt react to El Patron’s death?
How
is the news given to him? Is his
reaction
surprising?
What
is Mr.
Alcaran’s
order to Tam Lin?
How
many other clones were there?
How
has Tam Lin changed? What will
happen
to Celia? Why? Slide25
Chapter 24
What was Tam Lin’s real plan?
What
was Tam Lin’s perspective on the
bombing
? Working for El Patron?
What
did Celia show Tam Lin?
What
does Tam Lin mean when saying
he
can’t escape the “moral
consequences
?” What does he intend to
do
?
What
is the “filthy lie” about clones?
What
is meant by “El Patron kept Opium
frozen
one hundred years in the past?”
(
p. 245).
Where
does Tam Lin tell Matt to head to
first
when he gets to
Aztlan
? Slide26
Chapter 25
Why does Matt weep for El Patron?
What
does Matt finally see across the
border
? His reaction?
How
was Matt able to get across the
border
? Slide27
Chapter 26
How was Matt welcomed in
Aztlan
?
What
is Matt’s cover story?
Why
was Matt asked about skills?
Is
Matt familiar with the new technology
available
? Why or why not?
What
does “The orderly production of
resources
is vital to the general good of
the
people” (p. 264), “Its hard, but fair”
and
“Attention to the welfare of the
nation
is the highest virtue to which a
citizen
can aspire” (p. 265) tell you about
the
priorities of the country of
Aztlan
?
Why
did the boys have to be locked in?
What
is a keeper?Slide28
Chapter 27
Who were the Lost Boys and Lost Girls?
What
was Opium called at the work
camps
? What was known about it?
What
did the boys have to recite before
eating
?
What
did Matt not want the other boys to
see
? Slide29
Chapter 28
Why was Matt’s work quota double the
other
boys?
What
happened at age 18?
What
is the symbolism of the emblem of
a
beehive on the keepers’ uniforms?
What
is Plankton? Why are they
harvesting
it? What will prevent escape?
What
happened to the Colorado River
and
Gulf of California?
Why
were the boys denied dinner?Slide30
Chapter 29
Why is Matt called “the aristocrat?”
Who
is Ton-Ton? What happened to
him
? Why? Slide31
Chapter 30
Why was Matt targeted with accusations
each
night?
What
comparison was made to El
Patron
?
What
did
Fidelito
do out of fear of what
would
happen to Matt?
What
did Matt take at the infirmary?Slide32
Chapter 31
Why didn’t Matt want the
Landarum
?
What
happened every night? What was
the
significance of this event to Matt?
What
happened to Matt’s skin?
What
is Matt’s escape plan?
Why
was “friendship a pain” for Matt?
Matt
finally admits who is his mother?
Who
does he see as his father figure?Slide33
Chapter 32
Why is
Fidelito
punished by Jorge in
particular
?
What
was
Flaco’s
“implied threat” (p.
320-321
).
What
was found out about Matt? What
was
the impact on the other boys?
Where
were Matt and
Chacho
taken? Slide34
Chapter 33
Why was the tape on Matt’s mouth
removed
?
How
does Matt describe Tam Lin?Slide35
Chapter 34
Who arrived to help the boys? With
what
?
How
was
Chacho
removed from the
bone
pit?
What
happened to the keepers?
Where
is
Flaco
going? Why?
What
did Matt say to Ton-Ton to try to
console
him?
Where
are Matt and
Fidelito
going? Slide36
Chapter 35
Who came to help Matt and
Chacho
?
What
day was being celebrated?
Purpose
?
How
would the boys go undetected? Slide37
Chapter 36
Who was waiting for Matt and
Fidelito
at
the
hospital?
What
happened to the keepers? Slide38
Chapter 37
How have things changed in Opium?
What
does Esperanza’s view of
international
law mean for Matt? What is
Matt
to do?
What
was the extent of the suffering El
Patron
had caused?
What
was Matt’s job?
Who
greeted Matt in the music room? Slide39
Chapter 38
What happened to all of the
Alcarans
and
most of the bodyguards, including
Tam
Lin?
How
did Daft Donald survive?
Why
did Tam Lin not warn anyone else?
Tam
Lin knew what would happen to
him
by drinking the toast to El Patron.
Why do you suppose he drank anyway?