6th Grade Books
The event in which Egeon lost his family in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors.
What is a shipwreck?
In the dystopian novel, The Giver, Jonas is selected to inherit this position.
Who is the Receiver of Memory?
Dr. Frankenstein’s first name.
What is Victor?
Othello’s wife in Shakespeare’s Othello.
Who is Desdemona?
A candidate seeking office in the United States House of Representatives must be, at the least, this age.
What is 25?
The character who marries Lucie Manette in A Tale of Two Cities.
Who is Charles Darnay?
The home country of Catherine of Aragon.
What is Spain?
The friend of Gilgamesh whose death inspires Gilgamesh to seek immortality
Who is Enkidu?
An order of Ancient Greek column, noted for its plain and unadorned capital.
What is the Doric Order?
The two interlocutors who, in the second book of the Republic, take over Thrasymachus’ part.
Who are Adeimantus and Glaucon?
In U.S. building code, this is the maximum distance between two studs in an interior wall. (in feet)
What is two feet?
The city in which Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors is set.
Where/what is Ephesus?
The family name of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
What/who is Capulet?
The group of children responsible for maintaining the first signal fire in The Lord of the Flies.
Who are the hunters?
Huck Finn travels down the Mississippi primarily with this character.
Who is Jim?
The man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln during a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
The price of the bond agreed to by Shylock and Antonio in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
What is a pound of flesh?
The term used to describe French Calvinists - a significant Protestant group.
What are the Huguenots?
According to Dante, this person is the master of those who know.
Who is Aristotle?
The Latin term for the period during the first and second centuries C.E. of Roman political stability and relative peace.
What is the pax Romana?
The two Aristotelian souls possessed by non-human animals.
What are the nutritive and appetitive?
This real “gem” of a son was killed by Lucius Opimius in 121 BCE in the wake of an aggressive agrarian law establishing a powerful triumvirate to oversee Roman land distribution.
Who is Gaius Gracchus
The man who hires Shane as a farm hand in Jack Schaefer’s Shane.
Who is Joe Starrett?
The logo of the Firefighters in Fahrenheit 451.
What is the/a Salamander?
Scout’s full, real name in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
What is Jean Louise Finch?
The region in Europe from which Ántonia’s family comes in My Àntonia.
What is Bohemia/ Czech Republic?
The amendment, as part of the Bill of Rights, that protects American citizens' freedom of speech and religion.
What is the First Amendment to the Constitution?
In Voltaire's satire Candide, the title character is taught that this world is the "best of possible worlds," a philosophy associated with this German mathematician and philosopher.
Who is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz?
An incredibly influential Catholic family dynasty, producing numerous Holy Roman Emperors, and played a significant role in many European geopolitical events.
Who are the Hapsburgs?
Wife of Latinus who drives the women of Lavinium into a Bacchic frenzy after being driven mad by Allecto.
Who is Amata?
A famous Greek playwright. Known for his tragedies, such as 'Oedipus the King'.
Who is Sophocles?
According to Aristotle, the ultimate end toward which all humans aim.
What is Eudaimonia?
The name of the athlete who holds the high school U.S. record for the mile of 3:46.91.
Who is Alan Webb?
The clairvoyant pig in The Book of Three.
Who is Hen Wen?
The precious gem which is sought by Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit.
What is the Arkenstone?
In Shakespeare's Midsummer's Night's Dream, several characters reenact this play in Act V.
What is Pyramus and Thisbe?
The city to which Frederick Douglass moved where he learned to read and write.
What is Baltimore?
The name used by the United States/Americans to describe the Seven Years' War, a global conflict that spanned multiple continents between 1754-1763.
What is the French and Indian War?
The full, three-part name of the main character in Crime and Punishment
Who is Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov?
(Rodya Romanych Raskolnikov)
(Родион Романович Раскольников)
A term used to describe the atrocities English soldiers perpetrated on their own people in an attempt to suppress a large demonstration in London against the passage of the Corn Laws in 1819.
What is the "Peterloo Massacre"?
In the Odyssey a king of a blessed race who gives Odysseus a bag of wind, in the Aeneid a god placed in charge of winds by Jupiter to keep them from destroying the cosmic order of land, sea, and sky.
Who is Aeolus?
A group of thinkers in fifth-century BCE Athens who applied philosophical speculation to politics and language - were accused of deceit.
Who are the Sophists?
Acts as physician to Boethius
Who is Philosophy?
The year of the first powered flight in the United States.
What is 1903?