Common Mod: 1984
Common Mod: The Crucible
Mod A: The Richards
Mod A: The Tempest & Hag-Seed
Mod B: Eliot
Mod C: Everyone's Favourite
How well do you know the rubrics?
English Faculty Lore
100
How long does the Hate tirade go for?
a) two minutes
b) three minutes
c) five minutes
d) seven minutes
a) two minutes
100
What formal feature does The Crucible share with Animal Farm?
Political allegory
100
Which Hollywood actor compares Buckingham to the mafia?
Kevin Spacey
100
What is the condition of Ferdinand's proposal to Miranda?
Oh, if a virgin,
And your affection not gone forth, I’ll make you
The queen of Naples.
100
What is the way the world ends?
not with a bang but a whimper
100
What time is it now, where you are?
Whatever the current time is.
100
What pair of words are used to describe 'similarities' and 'differences' between the prescibed texts in Mod A?
resonances and dissonances
100
Which teacher recently had to issue a class-wide email apology to one of their students?
Ms Dwyer because "Noah was right"
200
Who owned the second-hand shop where Winston and Julia were arrested?
Mr Charrington
200
Name the famous actress to whom Arthur Miller was married.
Marilyn Monroe
200
Who is the producer of Looking for Richard?
Frederic Kimball
200
How many years have Prospero and Miranda been on the island?
Twelve years
200
In C8, there is a whole wall dedicated to T. S. Eliot. What name is he given on this wall?
The Big Daddy of Modernism
200
In What Time is it Now, Where You Are?:
What country has Sandi been deployed to and why is she calling home?
She has been deployed to Afghanistan. She is calling home because it is New Year's Eve.
200
Which Module do I belong to?
anomalies, paradoxes and inconsistencies
Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences
200
Which teacher prevents all English teachers from getting any work done in the staffroom?
Mr Jolly
300
Finish the slogan:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
__________ IS __________
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
300
What were Giles Corey’s last words?
"More weight."
300
Which battle inspired Shakespeare’s story?
Battle of the Roses
300
What does Caliban mistake Stephano for when he first meets him?
A god.
300
What does T. S. stand for?
Thomas Stearns
300
There has only been one time when students were not permitted to write imaginatively in the Mod C section of the HSC. What year was this?
2024
300
Which Module do I belong to?
...how the personal, social, cultural and historical contextual knowledge that [students] bring to the texts influences their perspectives...
Module A: Textual Conversations
300
Which two teachers went to the same high school? (apparently this is surprising)
Kummeling & Jolly
400
Who is the supreme enemy of the State?
Emmanuel Goldstein
400
What are the missing words?
You have made your magic now, for now I do think I see some _____ of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to _____ a _____ with, but white enough to keep it from such _____.
You have made your magic now, for now I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs.
400
What song does Al Pacino sing to describe Richard's power?
He's got the whole world in his hands
400
Hag-Seed was published in 2016 as part of which project that invited contemporary authors to reimagine Shakespeare’s plays?
The Hogarth Shakespeare project was an effort by Hogarth Press to retell works by William Shakespeare for a more modern audience and mark the four-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's death. To do this, Hogarth commissioned well-known writers to select and re-imagine the plays.
400
What term did T. S. Eliot use to describe a set of objects, images or events that evokes a particular emotion without directly naming that emotion?
The objective correlative
400
Correctly name Nam Le's text on the Mod C presciption list. Hint: It starts with Love.
Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice
400
What concept is being described here and to which rubric does it belong?
The unity of a text; its coherent use of form and language to produce an integrated whole in terms of meaning and value.
Texual integrity.
Module B: Critical Study of Literature.
400
What stunning piece of art can you find hanging in the English staffroom annexe / printer room?
The Mona Fisher
500
3-part Question:
Why does Winston buy the glass paperweight, what is inside of it and what happens to it?
It represents the lost past. It contatins preserved coral, and it is shattered when the Thought Police raid the apartment.
500
Name the friend and former colleague who betrayed Miller by naming him during a HUAC trial.
Elia Kazan betrayed Arthur Miller in 1952 when the he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and named Miller as a former member of the Communist Party.
500
Finish this quote ‘Now is the winter of…’
"Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun of York"
500
Felix’s students identify eight “unique incarceration events” in The Tempest. Name four of them.
500
What are the sources of the two epigraphs that open The Hollow Men?
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and the English Guy Fawkes tradition, specifically children asking for “a penny for the Old Guy”
500
Name any one of the poems on the Mod C prescription list.
Stamp Collecting by Kim Cheng Boey
Father and Child by Gwen Harwood
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens
The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Picture a Vacuum by Kate Tempest
500
The Mod C Rubric notes that "writers use language creatively and imaginatively for a range of purposes." Name two of these purposes.
to express insights, evoke emotion, describe the wonder of the natural world, shape a perspective or to share an aesthetic vision.
500
Correctly assign each pair of dogs to their owner.
Fish & Chips
Daisy & Blossom
Fish & Chips: Miss Barbeitos
Daisy & Blossom: Mr Jolly
600
When George Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil War, where (on his body) was he shot?
neck / throat
600
How much money does Abigail steal from Parris, leaving him penniless?
Thirty-one pound is gone. I am penniless. (He covers his face and sobs.)
600
What famous film does this Al Pacino line come from?
Say hello to my little friend!
Scarface
600
Accounts of the 1609 shipwreck of which English vessel are believed to have influenced Shakespeare’s depiction of the tempest and island?
The Sea Venture, which was shipwrecked near Bermuda.
600
What is the cruellest month?
600
How many rhetorical questions are in What Time is it Now, Where You Are? (not including the title)
For a correct answer, you must not be more than 5 above or below.
65
600
According to the Common Module Rubric, texts "invite responders" to do one of four things. Name the four things.
see the world differently
to challenge assumptions
ignite new ideas
reflect personally
600
Why is there a shovel in the English staffroom?
It was used as a prop in the short film made by Miss Kummeling's 2022 Year 8 class.