Poetry, etc
Who wrote “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”?
Wallace Stevens
Who were Marilla and Matthew expecting at the beginning of the novel?
Who was the Babylonian king who captured Jerusalem?
Nebuchadnezzar
Who interpreted dreams and visions for Babylonian and Persian kings?
Daniel
Where does Anne get a teaching job?
Avonlea
In the poem "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," a blackbird is compared to what kinds of things in nature? (Name 3)
tree, river, autumn wind, etc
What does Gilbert call Anne that makes her vow to hate him “until death”?
carrots
Aesop told what kind of stories?
fables
Confucius believed that people should pay particular respect to their:
Who is remembered as the “the father of history”?
Herodotus
Stanza XII: “The river is moving. / The blackbird must be flying.” represents:
change
Who inspires Anne that she would want to be a Christian too?
Mrs. Allan
What did Siddhartha Guatama search for?
truth
What year did Cyrus the Great decree that the Jews could go back to Jerusalem?
538 BC
How did Haman determine the date the that the Jews would be killed?
rolled dice
The Trailblazers Series focuses on what kinds of people?
Christian heroes
Explain one time that Anne uses her imagination for good.
Answers will vary – with Aunt Josephine to imagine how she felt and allows her to feel compassion and relate to her
_________________ constructed roads, started the first postal system, and commissioned the Behistun.
Darius I
What were the components of the Roman Republic’s government?
2 consuls, senate made of patricians and eventually plebeians were able to join
When the girls act out Tennyson’s poem, who is Anne pretending to be in the boat?
Elaine
What does the blackbird represent in “13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”?
poetry and all the different ways of reading poetry
Explain one time that Anne uses her imagination for bad.
Answers will vary – imagines ghosts in the woods and it ends up controlling her emotions and making her fearful
Describe the book of Habakkuk.
Poems of lament that life is horrible/injustice by corrupt leaders but God does see; written to God Himself; message that most nations become Babylon but God will rescue and restore and defeat evil
Describe the Persian religion of Zoroastrianism.
Monotheistic, forbid slavery, good/evil dualism, religiously tolerant
What are 2 of the teachings of Confucius found in the Five Classics?
All people basically good, people can solve their problems through proper living, harmony in all human relationships