The Crucible
Which of the following famous people was accused of being a communist/communist sympathiser during the Red Scare?
A) Walt Disney
B) Charlie Chaplin
C) Elizabeth Taylor
D) James Dean
B) Charlie Chaplin
(Fun Fact: Walt Disney did snitch and name names during the trials, claiming communists had infiltrated his animation studio)
Which fictional character would Caliban most likely relate to and why?
A) Sherlock Holmes
B) Gollum
C) Shrek
D) Chewbacca
C) Shrek as they both struggle for land rights
Which of these is not a Shakespearean insult?
A) Thine face is not worth sunburning.
B) Thou art as fat as butter.
C) I am sick when I do look on thee
D) I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed.
D) I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed.
This is often misattributed to old mate Billy Shakespeare, but alas, is not him.
This T. S. Eliot poem inspired elements of the Halo franchise, with references appearing in the soundtrack, locations and graffiti throughout Halo 3.
What is The Hollow Men?
The name Mrs Shannon originally gave to those first English lessons involving biscuits, tea and plenty of conversation.
What is “Tea and Talk”?
True or false: Most executions during the Salem Witch Trials involved hangings, although drownings were used on occasion.
False: drownings were common in European witch trials, mostly Germany.
In Prospero’s masque, these three Roman goddesses appear as figures associated with marriage, fertility and the rainbow. Name one.
Who are Iris, Ceres or Juno?
Which Renaissance intellectual movement, associated with thinkers such as Erasmus, sought to reconcile classical learning and human reason with Christian morality and used education as a means of encouraging ethical reform?
What is Christian Humanism?
In The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Prufrock’s repeated questioning and self-conscious hesitation primarily reveal what psychological condition characteristic of the modern individual?
What is paralysis or indecision?
This is the document Mrs Shannon is most likely to mention when explaining why students cannot simply submit AI-generated work as their own: it can reveal when and how a student’s writing was developed.
What is Google Docs edit history?
This character initially approaches the Salem witch trials with confidence in his expertise, declaring: “We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise.”
Who is Reverend Hale?
This French Renaissance philosopher and essayist wrote “Of Cannibals,” an essay that influenced Shakespeare’s representation of the “New World” and the inhabitants of Prospero’s island in The Tempest.
Who is Michel de Montaigne?
At the beginning of the novel, Felix is removed from his position as artistic director of this fictional Canadian theatre festival after Tony undermines his leadership.
What is the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival?
The epigraph to The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is drawn from Dante’s Inferno. In which language is the original epigraph written?
What is Italian?
You have spent an entire year being trained to do this to a quotation rather than simply identify the technique used.
What is unpack it?
This congressional committee pressured suspected communists and their associates to testify about their political affiliations, often demanding that witnesses name others—a practice that parallels the escalating accusations in Salem.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
When Miranda first sees the shipwrecked men she has never encountered before, she responds with this famous expression of wonder and excitement — a moment that Atwood later reworks in Hag-Seed.
What is “O brave new world, that has such people in’t!”?
Tony and Shakespeare’s Antonio are characterised by calculated manipulation, political ambition and a willingness to exploit others to achieve their goals. Drawing on a term derived from a 16th-century Italian political thinker, what type of villain do they represent?
What is a Machiavellian villain?
This figure is evoked by the phrase “A penny for the Old Guy” in the epigraph to The Hollow Men. Associated with an unsuccessful 1605 attempt to destroy the English Parliament, his name is still commemorated annually in Britain.
Who is Guy Fawkes, and what was the Gunpowder Plot?
Unlike many teachers, Mrs Shannon has never required Year 12 to do this before leaving the classroom for the bathroom — because she trusts that you are capable of making this decision yourselves.
What is ask permission to go to the toilet?
Danforth uses this metaphor to assert the court’s supposed ability to expose deception and reveal the truth. Finish the line:
“We burn a hot fire here; it ______.”
What is “melts down all concealment”?
Finish this quote:
Was the first man that leaped; cried...
“Was the first man that leaped; cried hell is empty, / And all the devils are here.” - Boatswain
At the end of the novel, Anne-Marie gives a blunt one-line summary of her feminist reimagining of The Tempest. Complete the line: “Goddess power…”
What is “…right in the nuts!”
This unsettling final phrase of Rhapsody on a Windy Night encapsulates the speaker’s fragmented psychological experience as the night and his memories draw to a close.
What is “The last twist of the knife”?
The HSC section Ms Shannon marked for three years
What is Mod C / What is Creative Writing?