Misc
What's the POV of the story?
What is 3rd person
What do the cigars/ smoking symbolize?
What is the celebration of George’s child/ George having a child
Which of the following is NOT a (major) motif present in the story:
a) value of religion
b) role of gender
c) effects of racism
d) role of death
What is a) value of religion
Who is the code hero?
Who is Dr. Adams
Who is the implied father of the baby?
Who is Uncle George
What is the name of the medicine that Dr. Adams uses on Uncle George?
What is peroxide
What does the sunrise symbolize at the end of the story?
What is hope and renewal/ cycle of life/ new beginnings (possible answers)
What motif does the scene where Dr. Adams calls the Indian woman a b**** most represent?
What is gender inequality/ sexism
List three traits that make the code hero code-hero-like.
What are stoic, confident, assertive, dedicated (possible answers)
Who pulled back the blanket from the Indian’s Head?
Who is Dr. Adams
What is the approximate time period setting of this story?
a. 1800
b. 3000 BCE
c. 1900
d. 1850
e. 1950
When is c. 1900
What do the dogs' barking best symbolize?
American discrimination against Indians
The tough and stoic nature of Dr. Adams
The tense relationship between Indians and Americans
What is 3. The tense relationship between Indians and Americans
What is the value of the Indian man cutting his foot with an axe three days before childbirth in the story?
(hint: think story writing techniques - allusions, symbols...)
What is to add tension to the story and foreshadow future events
In what way does Dr. Adams demonstrate resilience, a key trait of the Hemingway code hero?
What is he delivers the baby even though he doesn’t have medical supplies and makes quick decisions in a tense situation
Why did Dr. Adams bring Nick to the reservation with him?
What is to serve as a learning experience
What is the mood of the story?
What is somber/ tense (possible answers)
What does the Indian man’s suicide symbolize in the story?
a. Redemption and forgiveness.
b. Despair and hopelessness.
c. Strength and resilience.
d. Liberation and freedom.
What is b. Despair and hopelessness
What is Dr. Adams actually having medicine for Uncle George’s bite supposed to represent?
What is a lack of equality/ racism towards Natives
How does Dr. Adams reflect a code hero trait during the childbirth surgery scene?
What is he shows a sense of duty and responsibility towards his job and the woman OR shows resilience by not giving up
Why do the men in the camp move away from the shanty during the woman’s birth?
What is to avoid hearing the woman’s screams
When did Hemingway publish this story?
When is 1924
What does the water symbolize in the story?
What are the social divisions between Indians and Whites OR the cycle of birth and death (just like how water flows → life moves forward with it)
What are the three E’s that we discussed in class?
*Hint: one is emp...
What are empathy, equality, ethics
Why isn’t the Indian man (husband) the code hero?
What is he didn’t pass the test of endurance (died).
What did Dr. Adams sanitize the Indian woman’s stomach with before the surgery?
TRICK QUESTION!!!! Nothing. --- If you got it wrong, for redemption, what's the significance of using nothing?