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