Answers to Comprehension Questions - NSAA Language Arts

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The House of the Scorpion

Answers to Comprehension Questions:

Chapters 1-3

1. He implants them in brood cows 2. Clones 3. Matteo Alacran 4. Celia 5. English and Spanish 6. A girl and a boy 7. He thinks, to save Maria 8. Property of the Alacran Estate

Chapters 4-5

1. She doesn't believe that he is housebroken ? believes him to be an animal 2. She sleeps with Matt 3. El Patron's 4. On the cement floor 5. Sawdust 6. To attract bugs 7. Tom 8. Celia and Maria

Chapters 6-7

1. "Don't say anything about me" 2. El Patron and Celia 3. One hundred and forty years 4. Tam Lin 5. Because Tom ripped an ear off his teddy bear 6. Because he is doing the same thing over and over 7. She causes Matt to talk 8. On a picnic

Chapters 8-10

1. Opium 2. He is dead 3. It has an implant in it's head and is programmed to do only as it's told 4. At the oasis 5. Through a closet behind the music room 6. Music 7. If something bad happens he will come to the pantry behind the kitchen 8. The toilet bowl

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Chapters 11-12

1. He puts his place card at the baby's table and Maria's card beside himself 2. A brain 3. He would rather receive them than give them 4. Because insisting that Maria kiss him he has shamed and embarrassed her in front of

everyone 5. Felicia 6. He should meet Maria at the hospital 7. To shock them with something very despicable 8. Mr. MacGregor's clone

Chapters 13-14

1. His brain has been destroyed 2. He will hide Furball in the pumphouse and send a ransom note to Maria 3. He nailed it's hind legs to the lawn 4. Falls asleep 5. With Laudanum 6. By limousine 7. Aztlan 8. People who have implants in their brains

Chapters 15-16

1. To a convent 2. Tam Lin 3. El Viejo 4. In the secret passage behind the music room 5. Computer room 6. Tom and Felicia are able to view with a camera, every room in the house 7. She saw and heard Felicia and Tom talking

Chapters 17-18

1. A country between USA and Aztlan 2. The Farm Patrol 3. Home to the big house 4. Twenty 5. He had a heart attack 6. Tam Lin 7. He suggests that he give his possessions away

Chapters 19-21

1. Matt's coming of age because his voice is changing 2. Fourteen 3. Because she criticizes El Patron 4. She is Maria's mother and is still living

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5. His son Felipe 6. Steven and Emilia's 7. Eejits 8. He collapses with a heart attack

Chapters 22-24

1. Pretend that he is her pet eejit and fly away in her father's hovercraft 2. By putting his hand on the scorpion 3. Steven and Emilia 4. So that his heart cannot be used for transplant 5. Mr. Alacran and Tam Lin 6. A pee-brained ninny 7. He marked her forehead to make it appear that she had had an operation 8. Catch a hovercraft to San Luis and the Convent of Santa Clara

Chapters 25-27

1. A turkey buzzard 2. Two bighorn sheep fighting 3. A pool of oily, black goo 4. "It's hard but it's fair" 5. An orphanage 6. Furball 7. An aristocrat

Chapters 28-30

1. "To teach him the value of labor" 2. Clean the inside of the hovercraft 3. "Test it for me. I want to know if it's poison" 4. Checho and Fidelito 5. Whale bones 6. They are the stupidest birds in the world 7. Ton-Ton 8. He was a wussy aristocrat

Chapters 31, 32 and 33

1. Ton-Ton 2. Checho and Fidelito 3. He will say that the harvester broke down and he let Fidelito ride on it 4. Grabs the cane and beats Jorge with it 5. Matt shouts "stop' and pulls Checho back 6. All twenty Keepers 7. To the bone yard and left to die 8. In the middle of the night

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Chapters 34 & 35

1. Ton-Ton comes with the harvester and Fidelito 2. With the jaws of the shrimp harvester 3. Because he locked them in their rooms 4. 3 or 4 miles 5. Matt and Fidelito will walk to San Luis for help and Ton-Ton will wait with Checho until

help arrives or until Morning 6. It is the Day of The Dead 7. With face masks

Chapters 36, 37 & 38

1. In his hovercraft 2. Maria's mother-Dona Esperenza 3. They are taken by the police 4. To Opium 5. Mr. Ortega 6. With computers 7. All at the wake but Daft Donald were poisoned by the wine 8. Ton-Ton, Checho and Fidelito

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