The Old Man often thinks about a baseball player who plays for a team in this city.
What is New York
100
The Old Man sustains these two injuries while battling the marlin.
What are are a cut hand and a cut head.
100
The Old man often sees the fish as his equal, representing this theme.
What is Man with Nature, or Man as a part of Nature
100
The Old Man is on this kind of small boat.
What is a skiff
200
Although Hemingway was an American, he volunteered as a soldier and a journalist for this country's Civil War.
What is Spain.
200
The Old Man often dreams about a memory he has of lions sleeping on a beach here.
What is Africa
200
Prior to setting out on his fishing trip, the Old Man has not caught a fish in this many days.
What is 84
200
The Old Man embodies the idea of working hard through adversity and doubt. This represents this theme or idea. (Hint: it was a topic on the OAKS Writing test)
What is Perseverance
200
These are symbols for things and hardships that get in the way of one's dreams.
What are the sharks
300
This is how Hemingway died.
What is suicide
300
The Old Man and the Sea takes place here.
What is Cuba
300
Manolin can no longer fish with the Old Man because of this.
What is his parents think the Old Man is unlucky and make him join another fishing boat.
300
Manolin and the Old Man remain fiercly devoted to one another even though they have not worked together lately, representing this theme.
What is Loyalty
300
Hemingway uses this kind of writing, which he was known for, in The Old Man and the Sea.
What is Realism
400
These are three places where Hemingway lived.
What are Chicago, Paris, Key West, Cuba, and Idaho
400
The Old Man begins fishing in this body of water.
What is the Caribbean Sea
400
This is the Old Man's name.
What is Santiago
400
It can be said that the Old Man goes on this kind of journey, often the theme of epics, which involves a difficult task and often self sacrifice.
What is a Hero's Quest
400
Hemingway won this award for The Old Man and the Sea. (Hint it is given for Literature, Peace, Physics, etc.)
What is the Nobel Prize
500
These are two famous books written by Hemingway, besdies The Old Man and the Sea.
What are For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms.
500
The marlin drags the Old Man out to this body of water.
What is the Atlantic Ocean
500
The Old Man eats these three kinds of fish while out to sea.
What are albacore (tuna), flying fish, and dolphin (mahi mahi)
500
Since the Old Man endures a great deal of pain, has his heroism go largely unnoticed, has a small group of devoted followers, and ultimately dies, it is clear that he is one of these "figures."
What is a Christ-figure
500
"But a man is not made for ________. A man can be destroyed but not _________." Fill in the blanks (it is the same word in different tenses)