What is the time frame Santiago has to live on the day of his death?
100
The day Vladek was told in a dream that he would leave the POW camp.
What is Parshas Trauma?
100
Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
What is a free verse?
100
"The racer ran as fast as a cheetah."
What is an example of a simile?
100
prudent or shrewdly tactful.
What is the meaning of "politic" (adjective)?
200
This event causes concern for the state of Santiago’s body, forces the autopsy to begin, and causes the death of the beings that caused the event.
What is the effect of the dogs bursting into Santiago’s house during their wait for Dr. Dionisio Iguaran?
200
The Sheik and Ronald Rudolph.
What was the allusion to the title in relation to Vladek in the first chapter?
200
Stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
What is an Iamb?
200
"The birds were a lady’s scarf in the sky."
What is an example of a metaphor?
200
The church held a _______ after the death of one of its parishioners.
What is an example for the use of requiem?
300
Innocent and almost peaceful at first, then hostile and bitter as time goes by.
What was the facial expression expressed by Santiago’s corpse after he lay dead?
300
Animals; mice, cats, dogs, pigs, etc.
The way Art Spiegelman [The Author] portrays the different groups of people during the story. i.e. jews, poles, germans, etc.
300
A fourteen-line poem, often used by a certain famous 16th century English poet.
What is a sonnet?
300
"Clean ALL the things!"
What is an example of a hyperbole?
300
serf; servant
What are some synonyms for peon?
400
This force is used as an escape for the townspeople’s guilt, feelings of remorse, and the nagging thought that they could have done something to prevent Santiago’s death.
In the context of the book, what is the main usage of fate by the townspeople?
400
Janina does not let Vladek and Anna stay with her after they escape from the ghetto despite her comments to Anna earlier.
What is the irony in Janina’s remark to Anna before the war?
400
"All things pass / Love and mankind is grass." — Stevie Smith
What is an example of an epigram?
400
"A little big planet" or "jumbo shrimp"
What are examples of oxymorons?
400
clairvoyant; oracle
What are synonyms for augur?
500
This character thought that Santiago Nasar had decided to have breakfast at the narrator’s house before changing his clothes, and went to look for him there.
What is Cristo Bedoya’s only mortal mistake in his attempts to save Santiago?
500
Cynicism; chiefly demonstrated in the introduction to the book.
What is one of Vladek’s main psychological changes as a result of his experience in the war?
500
A sestina.
What is a poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter?
500
"Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage."
What is an example of a paradox?
500
This vocabulary word describes the exact opposite of the nature of the Vicario brothers’ plans.