House of the ScorPion: Vocabulary
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CHAPTER I.
embryo p, 3l
CHAPTER 2
abandon p. 6
fatigue p. 13:
CHAPTER 3
eejit p. 17:
defile p. 23:
CHAPTER 4
clone p.26:
maliciously p. 29:
CHAPTER 5
senile p.37t
deep litter p.42:
CHAPTER 6:
retching p. 52:
audible p, 6L:
CHAPTER 7
hostility p. 55:
laddie p. 7O:
CHAPTER 8
opium p.77:
eejit p. 81:
CHAPTER 9
lavishly p. 84:
chemotherapy p. 88:
CI-iAPTER 10
status p.92;
aristocrats p. 98:
CHAPTER 11
perimeter p. 103:
fetal brain implants P. LO5:
CHAPTER T2
hesitantly p. 1L3:
anguish p. L19:
CHAPTER 13
unique p. 125:
hysterics p.
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CHAPTER 14
anti gravity vessel p. 136:
laudanum p. L4O:
CHAPTER 15
convent p. 146:
turmoil p.
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CHAPTER 16
eavesdropping p. L56:
abomination p. 163:
CHAPTER I.7
malevolence p. 167:
social conscience p. 177:
CHAPTER I.8
hoard p. 178:
valiantly p. 183:
CHAPTER 19
Coming-of-Age p. 186:
vanity p. 192:
CHAPTER 20
Medieval p. L95:
humane p. 197:
CHAPTER 2I"
shunned p. 206:
embroidered p.2L2:
CHAPTER 22
inhabitant p. 2L6:
scorpion p.22L=
CHAPTER 23
grovel p.232=
arsenic p. 236:
CHAPTER 24
disposal p.242:
inferior p.2452
CHAPTER 25
ravenous p.24f3=
hodgepodge p. 255:
CHAPTER 25
aristocrat p. 261:
vital p. 265:
CHAPTER 27
dreamland 269:
individualism p. 273:
Chapter 28
inspirational p, 277=
pollutants p. 283:
Chapter 29
self-criticism p. 291r
Chapter 30
desolate p.296t
Chapter 31
guffawed p. 3LO:
Chapter 32
lackeys p. 318:
Chapter 33
infectious p.327:
Chapter 34
euphoria p. 338:
Chapter 35
skullface p. 352:
Chapter 36
reveler p. 355:
Chapter 37
godforsaken p, 364:
Chapter 38
eternity p. 373:
House of the Scorpion Study Guide
The House of the Scorpion
Study Guide
Chapters 0-5
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What is Eduardo making in the test tubes?
2. How many "drops of hfie" are there in the beginning?
3. \Alhat happens to most of them?
4. Where does Eduardo put the surviving ones?
5. Why does the nurse stop Eduardo from injecting the last embryo?
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What does Celia call Matt?
7.What can't Matt call Celia?
8.
What can't Matt touch in the house?
9.
What can Matt usually see out the window?
10.
What strange thing does Matt see one day?
11.
What do the boy and grrl bring with them the next day?
12.
What does Matt show them through the window?
13.
What do Stephen and Emilia threaten to do to Maria?
14. How does Matt get their attention?
15.
What does he say?
16. Where do the
children b.ing Matt?
17.
What is wrong with his feet?
18.
What do the maids find tattooed on his foot?
19. Where do
theyb.it g Matt after they find the words?
20. What do they call him?
21. Who is responsible for taking care of Matt?
22.1/Vhat does she hope he is able to do?
23. Who comes to visit him?
24. What does Matt use as a blanket?
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25. Why does Matt l.crock over his bucket?
Chapter
6
Who was Nlatt taken to meet?
What did the doctor say he lcrew about Matt's condition?
What happened to Rosa?
What does Matt share with El Patron?
Who does Matt get to live with now?
Which bodyguard does Matt choose?
Chapter 7
What can Matt still not do?
Who does Matt fight in the beginning of the chapter?
\Atrhat does Tam
Lin call Matt on pg67?
Why does Maria leave?
What is wrong with the teacher?
Chapter 8
Who is Maft's favorite TV hero? (it means "The Black\A/hip")
What do Matt and Thm Lin find in the field?
Why can't they take the horse into the hitls?
Why don't people like Matt?
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What is an eejit?
Chapter
9
What does Tam Lin threaten to suck up the racuum c.leaner?
Why is Matt upset about not getting punished?
What is Felicia's routine around playng piano?
What happened when Matt flicked the light switch?
Who does he hear/see talking from the passage?
Who agrees to teach Matt music?
Chapter
10
What occasion are they celebrating?
What does Celia want Matt to do if anythingbad happens?
Where does Matt find Furball?
Who put him there?
How old is El Patron?
Who is the creepy old man talking to El Patron?
Chapter
11
Where does Matt put Tom's place card?
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Where does Matt make Maria sit?
EI Viejo is El Patron's grandson and Mr. Alacran's father. What does he refuse to do?
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What does Matt make Maria do?
What happened to Maria's mother?
Chapter 12
Who comes to visit Matt?
Where is Matt supposed to meet Maria?
What do theyfind there?
Who does it look like?
Chapter
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\Atrho is Tom's real
father?
What are most clones injected with at birth?
What did Matt do with Furball?
What does Matt swear he did not do to Furball?
What does Thm Lin tell Matt at the end of the chapter?
Chapter 14
Which words of Tiem Lin's (about lyr.g) echo in Matt's head?
Where was Tombanished to?
what does El Patron do once he decides somethingbelongs to him?
What did Celia and El Patron have in common?
What happened to the other girls Celia escaped with?
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Chapter 15
What has happened to Rosa?
Where does Matt go on the horse?
Who left Matt the letter?
What does the priest say about Matt being in church?
Who helps him?
Chapter 16
What was in the cold room Matt found?
Who do they spy on?
Who really killed Furball?
Who helps Matt and Maria out in the end of the chapter?
Chapter 17
Which saint did Matt read about?
According to the book where could Opium sell its drugs?
Who was Esperanza talking about when she said, "a more evil, vicious, and self serving man could hardly
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did Matt decide he would do when he was in charge?
What lived in the horrible buildings?
What did Tam Lin do?
Chapter 18
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What did Celia make Matt eat before he left?
Where did the bodyguards bring Matt?
Who was beside Matt's bed when he woke up?
Who got a piggyback heart?
What did Matt suggest El Patron do with his thinp?
Chapter
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happened to Matt while he was singing?
What does Thm Lin say happened to Matt's "stepmother"?
Where did MacGregor's kidneys and liver come from?
How old is Matt?
Chapter 20
What is Matt afraid to ask Thm Lin?
Where does Matt go to think?
Who is Esperanza Mendoza?
What does Matt's breath smell like?
Why can't Matt leave?
Chapters 21.-22
What event is everyone preparingfor?
What did Matt realtze about Emilia's attendants?
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What does Maria think Matt has?
What present does Matt give Maria?
What happens to El Patron during the wedding?
On page 276,Matt suddenly realizes the real reason he was created. What is it?
What should Matt be hoping happens to El Patron?
What is the mark of the Alacrans?
Why can Matt open it?
What does Matt pretend to be?
Chapters 23-25
Where does Matt find himself as chapter 23 begins?
What does Matt wish he had done while he had the chance?
what story does el Patron tell once again when Matt goes to visit him?
Why does el Patron feel Matt owes him?
What has Celia done to make Matt useless for the transplants?
How many lives (clones) has el Patron had?
What did Maria get in trouble for doing at school?
What happens to el Patron?
What does Mr. Alacran order Thm Lin to do to Matt?
Why does Thm Lin act so cruel towards matt?
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Where does Thm Lin Thke Matt?
Why doesn't Daft Donald talk?
Who changed Thm Lin from his old "monster" ways?
How did Tam Lin protect Celia and prevent her frombeing turned into an eejit?
According to tam Lin, what is the difference between clones and humans?
What should Matt do when he gets to Aztlan?
What wildlife does Matt see?
How does Matt escape the Farm Patrol border guards?
Chapters 26-30
What false name does Matt give?
What story does he tell the guards he meets?
What do the boys chant?
What do the guards call themselves?
\,Vho does Matt sit with?
Where are they, according to Chacho?
What do the boys think has happened to their parents?
What was Chacho makingwith that wood?
What does it mean to show the guards a map of the world?
According to RauL what's wrong with a five legged horse?
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What's Matt's solution to the five legged horse problem?
How does Raul react to this?
What does Fidelito do to the bag of plastic strips?
What does the plankton factory smell like?
What's Matt's nickname
?
How does Carlos describe plankton?
What happened to the Colorado River?
What happened to Fidelito and his grandmother?
What was Ton Ton's crime?
\A/hat does Jorge have the boys do to help Matt see the error of his ways?
What three people does Matt think of?
What did Ton Ton drive?
What do Chacho and Matt see when they walk towards the
sea?
What does Fidelito explain the bones were?
What did Matt think of when the boys accused him of crimes at night?
What was Ton Ton's crime this time?
What was his punishment?
What does Matt confess to doing?
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Study Guide: Chapters 31-33
What is Luna training for?
How many keepers are there?
How many boys?
What do the keepers eat?
What do they take every night?
According to Tam Lin, what's the one thing a prisoner has in mind?
According to Fidelito's grandmother, what are people's souls like?
How did Jorge save Ton Ton?
Who does Matt realize are like his parents?
Who is Matt's lackey?
What does ]orge plan to do to him?
What do Chacho and Matt do instead?
What do they think Matt is?
Where do Chacho and Matt get dumped?
What is Chacho afraid of?
Why does Thm Lin say people are different from animals?
What does the wind sound like?
What do the bats do in the rain?
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What does Matt hear Chacho doing at the end of the chapter?
Chapters 34-38
What did Matt talk about to help Chacho?
Who came to save Chacho and Matt?
What was the escape vehicle?
What treat helped to revive Chacho?
What happened to the keepers?
Where is Luna planning on going?
What story does Matt tell Fidelito about the convent?
Who helped Matt when he fainted by the river?
What holiday did they arrive on?
Who fought in the hospital room?
\zVho stopped the fight?
Who arrived at the very end of chapter 36?
What has been going on in Opium for the past three months?
On page 367, what important thi.g does EspararLza tell Matt about himself?
What did Matt promise to do when he retumed to Opium?
How did Matt get back into Opium?
Who did Matt scare when he arrived?
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What is wrong with Matt's face?
Which two people greet him in Opium?
Where is evervone else?
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