Antigone
Who wrote Antigone?
Sophocles
What town is the setting for The Visit?
Güllen
Who is the author of Chronicle of a Death Foretold?
Gabriel García Márquez
The location city is never named in the play, but is based on this city, where the author was born and raised.
Pittsburgh
Spell the last name of Duffy's primary school teacher featured in one of the poems.
T-i-l-s-c-h-e-r
What nineteenth-century Englishwoman traveled widely around the world, including to Hawaii, India, and China?
Isabella Bird
If I went to The Bottom now, what would I find?
The Medallion City Golf Course
What is the subtitle of the book Persepolis?
The Story of a Childhood
Spell the author's first name BACKWARD.
i-t-a-h-d-n-u-r-A
Mary Anne Bell was whose girlfriend?
Mark Fosse
“Perhaps he’d turn into a god and they to trees” is an allusion to…?
The classical story/myth of Baucis & Philemon
Who is the author of The Importance of Being Earnest?
Oscar Wilde
To whom was Antigone engaged to be married?
Haemon
The first artificial body part of Claire's revealed to the town is an artificial....what?
artificial leg
The unnamed town in the novel was based on this real town where the author lived when he was younger.
Sucre
What's the name of Troy's best friend from work?
Bono
Which poem provoked Mrs Schofield to contact her local Member of Parliament to have it removed from the AQA anthology?
"Education for Leisure"
Which character speaks Latin on stage?
Pope Joan
What was Sula's dying thought?
"Wait'll I tell Nel." (Wait until I tell Nel that there is no pain in death.)
In what city does almost all of Persepolis take place?
Tehran, Iran
What town in India is the setting of this novel?
Ayemenem
Where did Jimmy Cross imagine romantic camping trips with Martha?
The White Mountains of NH
What is the name of the boat they find?
Pájaro de Esperanza
Who in the play called himself "Ernest"?
Jack [Worthing]
What TWO characters speak in the Prologue (the first scene of the play)?
Antigone and Ismene
Spell the author's last name.
Dürrenmatt
Name five characters from this book.
What is the name of Raynell's birth mother?
Alberta
Although not named in the poem by last name, "Standing Female Nude" seems to be about a woman modeling for what Cubist artist?
Who was the Prime Minister of England at the time this play was written?
Margaret Thatcher
What did Hannah dream of the night before she died?
A wedding in a red bridal gown.
In what year was Marjane Satrapi born?
1969
The evening she dies, Sophie is wearing a pinafore with a word on it in a “tilting, happy font”. The word is…
Holiday!
When Norman Bowker passed the bandstand, the band was playing songs by what patriotic composer?
John Philip Souza
What are the boy’s last words spoken to his father’s dead body?
“I’ll talk to you every day. And I won’t forget. No matter what.”
What's the name of that poor friend who seems to be ill so often, whom Algernon needs to go see when he wants to escape an obligation in town?
Bunbury
What is the name of the blind prophet who warns Creon near the end of the play?
Tiresias
What is the Greek literary term for this recognition in a drama? "It's all my own doing, the eunuchs, the butler, the coffin, and the billion."
anagnorisis = the RECOGNITION of the tragic hero that his own actions or flaws have brought about the tragedy
On what day of the week does the novel begin?
Monday, after the wedding on Sunday.
What did Blue hunt in the song?
possums
Which character in "Model Village" poisoned her mother with arsenic?
Miss Maiden
What is the name of Marlene's sister AND biological daughter?
Joyce AND Angie
What rank did Shadrack achieve in the army?
private
What was the earliest dream Marjane had of what she wanted to be when she grew up?
a prophet
With what line of Kipling did the twins’ mother put them to bed?
“We be of one blood, thou and I.”
What kind of burger did Norman Bowker order at A&W?
Mama Burger
This book is dedicated to McCarthy’s son, named…
John Francis McCarthy
Whom did Miss Prism end up with at the end of the play?
Rev. Canon [Frederick] Chasuble
What was Creon's father's name? (Creon is referred to as "Son of ______".)
Menoeceus
What is the number of the last of Claire's husbands to appear in the play?
IX
What was the name of Santiago and his father's farm?
The Divine Face
Within two dollars, what is the amount of money in Troy's weekly paycheck that he hands over to Rose every Friday?
"There it is. Seventy-six dollars and forty-two cents."
Alter "calf" to "veal" in four steps.
CALF-->CALL-->CELL-->VELL-->VEAL
"Frightening," said by Angie.
One piece of "evidence" that Sula is evil: A boy fell off her porch, and his mother says she pushed him. What was the boy's name (nickname)?
What kinds of jets did the Iranian air force use?
F-14
The last word of this book is...
tomorrow
What was Tim O’Brien’s real home town?
Worthington, MN
Define: discalced
not wearing shoes
Name both of the young ladies in the play, first names AND last names.
Cecily Cardew and Gwendolyn Fairfax