The Greeks
Brush Up Your Shakespeare!
Oh! The Horror!
The Best We Could Do
Hurston and Back to the Beginning
100

The Trojan horse could also be translated as...

A Boat!

100

How many syllables are in a line of Iambic Pentameter?

10, 5 Feet

100

Something can be grotesque, abject or.....

Uncanny

100

What is the genre of the book?

A Graphic Memoir 

100

True or False: Their Eyes Were Watching God was considered an instant classic.

False: It wasn't until the Mid 20th Century that the text was claimed by Womanists and Black Feminists.
200

What is the name of the mother/wife of Oedipus?

Jocasta

200

Where does 12th Night take place?

Illyria

200

In "The Lottery", what is the first and last name of the victim?

Bonus: What is the significance of their last name, historically?

Tessie Hutchinson

A name significant for a woman named Anne Hutchinson, who was exiled from her Puritan community. Also big name in the Salem Witch trials.  

200

What language did Ma and Bo speak other than Vietnamese and English? Note: This has to do with colonization 

French

200

"It's the End of the World as We Know It" took place on New Years Eve of what year?

2000 aka Y2K

300

Where does Telemachus go to hear the story of his father? Hint: Menelaus and Helen live here.

Sparta

300

What color are the stockings Malvolio wears to impress Olivia?

Yellow

300

What was Charlotte Perkins Gilman's inspiration for "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

Her own experience with a "Rest Cure".

300

How many children did Ma have?

6 (Thi, Tam, Thao, Bich, Lan and Quyen) 

300

What is the sensation Cathy Park Hong was describing when she said she "had the desire to devour cute things"?

Kawaii

400

What does Creon sentence Antigone to? SPECIFICALLY.

To be buried alive in a Tomb in a cave.

400

Who is Olivia in "mourning" for at the beginning of the play?

Her brother and father.

400

In "Roja", what war creates that backdrop for the story?

The Franco-Mexican War

400

Where does adult Thi live at the beginning of the story?

New York

400

Who wrote the super gay poem we read at the beginning of the year?

Sappho

500

Who is the first person Odysseus encounters in Ithaca?

Athena, disguised as an Old Man.

500

Fill in the blank

"If ------- be the food of love, play on!"

Music

500

What ongoing social justice issue does "The Deerwoman" address?

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

500

Why couldn't Bo travel with the family to America?

He has scars on his lungs from Tuberculosis

500

In Indecent, what language was "The God of Vengeance" originally written in?

Yiddish
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