Emperor
The author of When the Emperor Was Divine.
Who is Julie Otsuka?
The name of the American city in which this play takes place.
What is Chicago?
The name of Lennie’s Aunt.
What is Aunt Clara?
What is a symbol?
The only mammal that can fly.
What is the bat?
The narrative perspective (Point of View) of each chapter (all chapters!) of the book.
What is: 1-mother 2-daughter 3-son 4-children 5-father
The family that is the neighbors of the Youngers, who share the bathroom on their floor.
Who are the Johnsons?
The name of the poem by Robert Burns from which Steinbeck got the title for this novel.
What is "To a Mouse"?
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
The number of different, distinct “cat words” scientists have identified in meows.
What is 16?
One thing the mother’s rose bush at the end of Chapter 4 could symbolize.
What is... (Possible Answers) Mother's sense of safety/security...Family's recovery from the time in camps...anything the family or mother has lost that they are trying to find.
The name of Mama’s now-deceased husband.
What is...Walter, Big Walter, or Walter, Sr.?
DAILY DOUBLE!
From the time I say "go," you have TEN SECONDS to name FIVE CHARACTERS from this novel who have names/nicknames. ("Curley's wife," for example, is not a name or nickname. Neither is "the boss".)
Possible answers: Who are...George, Lennie, Curley, Candy, Crooks, Slim, Carlson, Whit?
When you say something, but mean the opposite
What is verbal irony?
In terms of causing deaths of humans, this is the most dangerous animal (other than other humans) in Africa.
What is the hippopotamus?
Owner of the hardware store.
Who is Mr. [Joe] Lundy.
George Murchison compares Walter to this classical Greek figure.
Who is Prometheus?
Curley’s wife’s first line in the book. (You must be exactly correct or almost exactly correct, although I will accept a slight variation on the actual quotation.)
What is: “I was lookin’ for Curley” ?
This is the term for the height of tension in a story
What is the climax?
The longest distance pizza delivery was made from London, England to this city—more than 10,000 miles away.
What is Melbourne, Australia?
Name of the emperor of Japan at the time of the novel
Who was Hirohito?
The name of Asagai's African tribal group.
What is Yoruba?
This character had a letter-to-the-editor published in a cowboy magazine.
Who is Bill (or Will or William) Tenner?
The deliberate confusion of words based upon homophones
What is a pun?
This is the first country to hold an underwater bike race.
What is Wales?
The name of the lake that is “dark and had no outlet to the sea…an ancient body of water where nothing ever sank”.
What is the Great Salt Lake?
In Walter’s dream of being rich, the kind of car he drives, AND the kind of car Ruth drives.
What are...Chrysler (for Ruth) and Cadillac (for Walter)?
The name of the employment office where George & Lennie got their work cards.
What is Murray & Ready's?
A storytelling method in which the narrator's perspective is narrowed because he or she knows only the thoughts and feelings of a single character.
What is 3rd person limited?
The country in which you can find an underwater postbox, where letters can be mailed only by scuba divers.
What is Japan? (There was one in the Bahamas, which has since closed.)
The name (Japanese term) of what Tommy Tanaka’s father was wearing on his feet when he was taken by the authorities.
What are wooden geta?
Where Bobo and Willie were supposed to be going, when Willie left with the money.
What is Springfield (the capital of Illinois)?
The page number of the last page of Of Mice & Men.
What is 107?
The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant
What is metonymy?
An underground river more than 95 miles long flows under this country.
What is Mexico?