Brooklyn
Grammar and Vocabulary
ATSS
Afghanistan
Madison
100
This Brooklyn baseball team built its stadium in Coney Island.
Who are the Cyclones?
100
The placement of the apostrophe in "The deans' office" tells you this.
What is that there are many deans in the office?
100
This is the author's full name.
Who is Khaled Hosseini
100
This word means for one man to have many wives.
What is polygamy?
100
This is the new incentive in place to encourage Madison students to wear their lanyards.
What is the lanyard lottery?
200
This Brooklyn body of water got its name from the animal it resembles when seen from a bird's eye view.
What is Sheepshead Bay?
200
The capital F in this sentence "I put my Faith in this car." makes the sentence mean this.
What is that I put something named Faith in the car?
200
This is Mariam's internal conflict that she carries with her throughout the book.
What is that she will never be good enough to please anyone or make them proud? What is that she is an unwanted thing that does not deserve love, family, home, and acceptance?
200
These are the two different kinds of veiling we have seen in A Thousand Splendid Suns thus far.
What are Burqas and Hijab?
200
Students have this much time between the bells to get from one class to another.
What is four minutes?
300
This many bridges connect Brooklyn to other boroughs.
What are 5? (Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg, Verizzano, Flatbush Ave.)
300
The use of this literary term is present when Okoloma calls Adichie a "feminist" in a judgmental manner.
What is negative connotation?
300
The way Tariq acts, thinks, and behaves despite his disability suggests this about his character.
What is that he is a strong and confident character who is able to persist through struggles?
300
This is the religion that is most widely practiced in Afghanistan.
What is Islam?
300
The fifth floor has this many staircases.
What is six?
400
You can catch a water taxi from one of these two Brooklyn neighborhoods to Manhattan.
What is Red Hook or Dumbo?
400
This is what someone who suffers through a painful situation quietly and patiently does.
What is endure?
400
This is Laila's internal conflict.
What is I will never be as good/loved as much by my mother as my brothers?
400
This person is a religious teacher who has the responsibility of teaching the Koran to children.
Who is a Mullah?
400
This famous female TV star graduated from Madison in 1960 and is known for her brutal honesty and fair judgement.
Who is Judge Judy?
500
This is the name of Brooklyn's largest park consisting of 585 acres.
What is Prospect Park?
500
This word represents the error in this sentence: "She is an alumni with whom Randy and I have a lot in common."
What is "alumni"?
500
The function of the following metaphor is... She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world.
What is to indicate that the women of the world endure so many hardships that they couldn't even be contained by the sky (must fall down because they get too heavy)?
500
This is the amount of time after a loved one dies before a ceremony takes place to mark the end of the mourning period.
What is one year?
500
This American politician graduated from Madison in 1959 and is the longest serving independent in U.S. congressional history.
Who is Bernie Sanders?
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