Children
Symbolic Items
"Meta"moments
Neighborhoods
Food and Drink
Powerful Silences
Final Jeopardy
100
In Raisin, she becomes pregnant.
Who is Ruth?
100
A Raisin in the Sun opens with characters eagerly awaiting the arrival of this.
What is an insurance check?
100
Revolutionary Road (the film) opens with this character acting in a play.
Who is April Wheeler?
100
It's the name of "our town."
What is Grover's Corners?
100
After insisting that Emily and he order these, George realizes he's forgotten his wallet.
What are ice cream sodas?
Free $50 Bonus: What flavor?
100
Revolutionary Road ends with this device being shut off.
What is a hearing aid?
200
By the end of Our Town, this family has lost both of their children.
Who are the Webbs?
200
Dee fears that her sister will put these to "everyday use."
What are quilts?
200
In the middle of Our Town, we learn that the Stage Manager is going to do this with a copy of Our Town.
What is put it in a time capsule / cornerstone of a new building?
200
Revolutionary Road deals with this new type of community that flourished after World War II.
What are the suburbs?
200
In "Everyday Use," the narrator informs us that "Hakim-a-Barber" doesn't eat this kind of meat.
What is pork?
200
When this alcoholic character is found walking the street after dark, he remains eerily silent when spoken to.
Who is Simon Stimson?
300
His mere presence in the room contributes to Walter's decision not to take Lindner's bribe.
Who is Travis?
300
When Ruth offers these to Walter, he refuses and "damns" them.
What are eggs?
300
This fictional character writes about his fictional siblings in the fictional novella Franny and Zooey, and includes in Franny and Zooey what these fictional siblings thought of this fictional work after reading it (huh?).
Who is Buddy?
300
Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Wheeler die before getting to see this city.
What is Paris?
300
When offered this to drink in Raisin, George Murchison declines and snootily states "I don't care for" it, and also that "I don't really care for anything."
What is beer?
300
Mrs. Glass is thoroughly annoyed and inconvenienced that Franny and Zooey's older brother does not have one of these.
What is a phone?
400
It's the name of the radio quiz show on which Franny and her siblings appeared as children.
What is "It's a Wise Child"?
400
Raisin in the Sun ends -- then briefly resumes so that Mama/Lena can come back on stage and retrieve this object and take it off stage with her.
What is Mama/Lena and her plant?
400
The play A Raisin in the Sun borrows its name from a line in Langston Hughes's poem, "Harlem" -- a poem that opens with this question.
What is, "what happens to a dream deferred"?
Free $50 Bonus: What's the last, italicized word of the poem?
400
Raisin in the Sun ends with the Youngers moving into this fictional Chicago-area neighborhood.
What is Clybourne Park?
400
In addition to strong martinis, Lane consumes these two French dishes in Franny and Zooey.
What are snails and frogs' legs?
400
It's what happens right before this stage direction:
(After, there is only silence and the daughter drops her eyes from her mother’s face, and MAMA is very tall
before her)
What is Lena slaps Beneatha?
400
The category is . . .
Literary Characters Reading and Writing
500
Act one in Our Town ("in our growing up") ends with George and his younger sister talking in childish wonder about a letter a friend received from a priest and how strangely the envelope was addressed:
...New Hampshire; United States of America; Continent of North America; Western Hemisphere; the Earth; the Solar System; the Universe; and THIS
What is "the Mind of God"?
500
Early in the term, we compared the act of reading/discussing literature together to a Baldwin story in which a few men argue about this.
What is an elephant?
500
In Our Town, the newspaper editor fields questions from the "audience," who ask questions about these three topics.
What are drinking, culture (beauty/art), and social injustice?
500
In "Everyday Use," the church takes up a collection to send Dee to a private school in this Georgia city.
What is Augusta?
500
In Revolutionary Road, the mentally unwell John strangely requests this kind of drink be poured in a highball class, with ice cubes, and filled up to the brim.
What is sherry?
500
This character, the family cat in Franny and Zooey, never says a word.
Who is Bloomberg?
500
We first "meet" Franny's voice in a letter she writes to Lane; this is the date she puts at the top of the letter.
What is "Tuesday I think"?