The Book Of Life Questions

Question: What are the names of the two lands where the dead go?

Answer: the land of the remembered and the land of the forgotten

Question: Who rules each land for the dead?

Answer: La Muerte - Remembered; Xibalba - Forgotten

Question: What is La Muerte made of?

Answer: white sugar candy

Question: What is Xibalba made of?

Answer: black tar

Question: What is the Candlemaker made of?

Answer: wax

Question: Why is Xibalba living in his present condition?

Answer: he lost a bet

Question: What was Joaquin's father's profession?

Answer: legendary war hero

Question: What is the family profession of Manolo Sanchez?

Answer: bull fighting

Question: What would Manolo rather do than his family?

Answer: be a musician

Question: What do Joaquin and Manolo both want?

Answer: María

Question: Who is El Chakal?

Answer: the bandit (villian)

Question: What is the bet between La Muerte and Xibalba?

Answer: who María will marry

Question: In their bet, who bets on which boy?

Answer: La Muerte - Manolo; Xibalba - Joaquin

Question: What will La Muerte win if she wins the bet?

Answer: Xibalba can't interfere with Earth

Question: What will Xibalba win if he wins the bet?

Answer: he will rule the Land of the Remembered

Question: Where does María's father send her to "straighten her out"?

Answer: a convent

Question: What gift does Manolo give María when she leaves?

Answer: the pig she saved

Question: What gift does María give Manolo when she leaves?

Answer: a new guitar

Question: What is special about the day of Manolo's first bullfight?

Answer: it's the day María returns

Question: How did Manolo win María's heart?

Answer: he didn't kill the bull

Question: What scared off the bandits fighting Joaquin in San Angel?

Answer: the medal of everlasting life

Question: What is Joaquin's battle cry

Answer: his name

Question: How did Manolo propose to María? How did it work?

Answer: at dawn, he set up candles on the bridge and sang to her; she says that she loves him

Question: What did Manolo do to be with María? Where did he go?

Answer: he killed himself by a snakebite; he went to the land of the remembered

Question: Who is the primary group of people Manolo meets in the Land of the Remembered?

Answer: his family

Question: Why couldn't Manolo find María in the Land of the Remembered?

Answer: bc she is alive

Question: How did Xibalba cheat Manolo?

Answer: he made Manolo believe María was dead and Manolo wanted to die also to be with María

Question: Who is in charge of the Cave of Souls?

Answer: the candlemaker

Question: What does each candle in the Cave of Souls represent?

Answer: a life

Question: What is the challenge Manolo must face to get his life back? What happens if he lost?

Answer: he has to defeat every bull his family ever killed; he will be forever forgotten

Question: Who meets Chakal at the gates of San Angel? What happens to him?

Answer: Manolo's dad; he dies

Question: How did Manolo defeat the great bull best in the Land of the Forgotten?

Answer: he sings him a song saying sorry

Question: "Manolo's fear was never bullfighting." What was Manolo's greatest fear?

Answer: being himself

Question: Who showed up to help out the great battle of San Angel on el Día de los Muertos?

Answer: Manolo

Question: What subject did María not mention studying at the convent?

Answer: pig farming

Question: How did Manolo survive the great battle of San Angel on el Día de los Muertos?

Answer: he had the medal of everlasting life

Question: Joaquin learned that to be a true hero you have to be...?

Answer: selfless

Question: Who does María marry?

Answer: Manolo

Question: Who is the Tour Guide?

Answer: La Muerte

Question: Who is the Security Guard?

Answer: Xibalba