In a story, a woman born on the night of this event realizes that her mother has died after seeing a tear travel down a porcelain statue of the Virgin Mary. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this event, which provides the background to the story “Nineteen Thirty-Seven.” In a novel, Amabelle returns to Yves (“EVE”) after discovering that her lover Sebastien died during this event.
ANSWER: Parsley massacre [or El Corte]
[10e] Amabelle appears in The Farming of Bones, a novel set during this dictator’s rule. This Dominican leader orders the death of the Mirabal sisters in Julia Alvarez’s novel In the Time of the Butterflies.
ANSWER: Rafael Trujillo [or Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina]
[10m] Trujillo broods over his impotence on the night of his assassination in this novel, which weaves together the narratives of Trujillo, his assassins, and Urania Cabral.
ANSWER: The Feast of the Goat [or La Fiesta del Chivo] (by Mario Vargas Llosa)
<Hayden Prather, World Literature>