Questions for "How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife"

1. What is the connection between Leon and Noel?
2. What is the relationship between Noel and Maria?
3. How old is Baldo?
4. Why did Maria scratch Labang's forehead?
5. Why was Baldo quiet when Leon asked him "what is it you have forgotten now, Baldo?" (9)
6. Why does Maria laugh at everything, especially when Noel says "Maria, why do you think Father should do that, now?" (10)
7. What star is Noel and Maria referring to, and why do they have a star?
8. Why do both Noel and Maria know the song 'Sky Sown with Stars'?
9. What is the significance of singing together?
10. Was Maria nervous or scared when Baldo told her that home was near?
11. Why did 'all the laughter' seem to have gone out of her when she said "so near already"? (12)
12. What is wrong with Father's leg?
13. Why did they go through the Waig?
14. Why did the father ask if they saw anybody on the way?
15.Why did Father ask if Maria was afraid of Labang?
16. Why was Father curious of what they sang?
17. How come the author ended with the way he did?

America is in the Heart & How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife:
1. What is the relationship between city and country side for Carlos Bulosan and Manuel Arguilla?
2. How does the city and countryside affect these two authors?

Questions for "America is in the Heart"
1. What does America mean for Carlos Bulosan?