Vocabulary
True or False: If something is PLASUSIBLE, then it may happen, i.e. a fire drill during Finals.
What is True
This girl tattled on Tituba and gained power by accusing others of witchcraft.
Who is Abigail Williams?
This artistic movement happened as a result of the Great Migration of African-Americans from the south to north during the 1880s and 1890s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance.
True or False: Gatsby threw parties in hopes that Daisy Buchanan would one day show up and fall back in love with him.
What is true.
This was the main antagonist in The Pearl who refused to see Kino because he viewed him as inferior.
Who is the doctor?
True or False: If our best friend acts sad by crossing their arms and giving one word answers to everything, we can say that they're acting GLOOMY.
What is True? Remember GLOOMY can also refer to bad weather.
This conquistador was a pig farmer in Spain who came to the New World to find fame and fortune through the conquest of the Native Americans. Besides being the first European to see the Pacific Ocean, he shares a name with a famous movie character from the 1970s and 1980s.
Who is Balboa?
Langston Hughes wrote about a "Dream Deferred". What is that dream?
What is the American Dream.
This is what Gatsby is staring at when Nick Carraway first encounters him. (HINT: Gatsby stares at this a lot in the novel, and talks about it a lot)
What is the green light
In Hawthorne's The Black Veil, the main character's fiancé refused to marry him after he did what? Hint: It involves the black veil.
What is refuse to take off the black veil.
What is true
This conquistador conquered the Aztecs of Mexico and is the main character in Neil Young's famous song "----- the killer" that we listened to at the start of the year.
Who is Cortes?
In his poem "Montage for a Dream Deferred", Langston Hughes used the term Daddy to refer to what?
What is white people
This is the person who was driving Gatsby's car when Myrtle Wilson was struck and killed.
Who is Daisy Buchanan.
This is the theme (main message) of The Soul Selects her own Society by Emily Dickinson.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is you choose who is important in your life. (No one else can tell you who is important).
True or False: Sally suffered many afflictions in her life: being born with a trust fund, having many friends in high school, and winning prom queen.
What is false: Afflictions are bad.
The idea that America is a 'melting pot' is that here in America people can come from all over the world and be what?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is one society? (Any answer that involves people coming together from different backgrounds works)
Claude McKay's poem "If We Must Die", contains the line "If we must die, O let us nobly die, / So that our / precious blood may not be shed / In vain". What struggle is McKay referencing that might require dying?
What is fighting for equal rights / respect.
In The World on a Turtle's Back, the left-handed brother represented what?
What is nighttime/evil.
True or False: Carl was notorious for donating his time to food shelters.
What is False? Notorious means you are known for doing bad things.
Thoreau and Emerson, followers of the American philosophy of Transcendentalism, preached that Americans needed to return to where?
What is Nature?
The story of Tish visiting her unjustly jailed boyfriend to tell him that she's pregnant was titled what?
What is If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin.
This was Gatsby's shady friend who had human teeth as cuff links and fixed the 1919 world series.
DAILY DOUBLE
Who is Mayer Wolfsheim.
In The World on a Turtle's Back, what does grandmother's severed head become after Right-Handed brother kills her?
What is the moon?