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Hummel and McGuire dormitories are both housed in a building that bears this name.
What is Henderson (Hall)?
This swineherd, key to the story of the play, is beloved by Homer, Mary Zimmerman, and Mr. Biondi.
Who is Eumaeus?
Just like Henry IV Part 1 is labeled a history, this is the genre label given to The Tempest.
What is a romance?
This is the utopian town in Florida that Janie and Jody help to found and build up, which was also a real-life town where Hurston herself lived.
What is Eatonville?
Biondi means "blond" in a Northern dialect of this European language.
What is Italian?
Mr. Doyle attended this Ivy League safety school, which has become something of a feeder institution for Episcopal faculty.
What is Princeton University?
When Telemachus goes out (at Athena's urging) in search of news of his father, he stays with this Spartan king, husband of Helen.
Who is Menelaus?
These are the correct pronunciations from the play of the following words: "boatswain," "Milan," and "masque."
What are "bo-sun," "millen," and "mask"?
What instrument does Logan Killicks have at his home, about which Nanny brags regarding his wealth and exclusivity?
What is an organ?
Mr. and Mrs. Biondi were married in this U.S. state.
What is South Carolina?
You may hear it referenced as the woods or even "Vietnam" by alums, but the formal name of the area of campus west of the new track is this.
What is Laird Acres?
This type of tree made Odysseus and Penelope's rooted bed, which Penelope uses to test her husband's identity.
What is olive?
This character from the masque is the Roman goddess of marriage.
Who is Juno?
This is how much money Tea Cake returns with after gambling Janie's $200.
What is $322?
Willa Biondi has this middle name, a tribute to Mr. Biondi's father's middle name.
What is James?
This man was the first head of Episcopal High School.
Who is (William Nelson) Pendleton?
This Greek term refers to the rules regulating guest-host relations.
What is xenia?
This word completes the following line from Act V, scene i. "I’ll break my staff, / Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, / And deeper than did ever plummet sound / I’ll drown my __________" (V.i.54-57).
What is "book"?
Their Eyes Were Watching God was primarily written during Hurston's anthropological research trip to this Caribbean nation.
What is Haiti?
In grad school, Mr. Biondi wrote his dissertation on Arthur Miller, author of Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, among others, plus this author of works like The Glass Menagerie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Who is Tennessee Williams?
In this year, Episcopal enrolled (not graduated!) its first class of girls as it began the transition to co-education.
What is 1991?
Mary Zimmerman's most famous play is called Metamorphoses, an adaptation of the book of stories of the same title by which Roman poet?
Who is Ovid?
This is Ferdinand's sister, who was married off in "Tunis" in Northern Africa.
Who is Claribel?
This word completes the quote from the first paragraph of the novel: "For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the __________ turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men" (1).
What is "Watcher"?
Mrs. Biondi graduated from Episcopal in this year.
What is 2008?