Ninth Grade
What is the name of Achilles’ best friend who he kills Hector for?
Patroclus
What was the name of the person Jesus resurrected?
Lazarus
How long was Shukhov’s sentence in Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?
Ten years
In the Scarlet Letter, what does the Ą on Hester’s dress stand for?
Adulterer
Who is a red-haired petite French girl who talks to tigers at the zoo?
Madeline
Who is Orestes in the Orestia?
*Bonus: What is the name of his friend?
The son of Agamemnon who avenged his death by killing his mother and her lover
*Pylades
What is the name of Raskolnikov’s best friend? *Bonus: What did he hand feed Raskolnikov?
Razumhkin
*soup
What are the two cities referred to in the title of the Tale of Two Cities?
London and Paris
Thoreau writes that he has three chairs: one for solitude, one for friendship, and a third for what?
Society
What does the White Witch tempt Edmund with in the book The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe?
Turkish delights
How long does it take Menelaus to get home? (This is found in the Odyssey)
Eight years
Who is the king that Macbeth and his wife kill?
Duncan
What did the being request from Frankenstein after telling his tale, that was initially promised to him but later denied?
*Bonus: where did the being tell his tale?
a wife
*on a mountain
In Catcher and the Rye what is Holden’s favorite article of clothing?
*Bonus: Who is Dr. Wagenaar’s favorite character in the twelfth grade curriculum?
His red hunting cap
*Hester Prynne
What is the name of Alice’s cat in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?
Dinah
In the Orestia, what is the sign that the herald is bringing good news?
He is wearing a wreath made of olive leaves
Who is the one to stay by Beowulf’s side and help him fight the dragon?
Wiglaf
Which of Paul’s classmate is the first to die in the war?
Joseph Behm
Finish the last sentence of The Great Gatsby: “so we beat on, boats against the current…”
Borne back ceaselessly into the past
What is the name of the werewolf love interest for Bella in Twilight?
*Bonus: Who is my favorite character in Twilight?
Jacob Black
*Jasper
How is Hero’s reputation ruined in the play Much Ado About Nothing?
*Bonus: Which character did I like to read for when we did this in class?
They accuse of her of infidelity when it was really just a plot orchestrated by Don John to ruin her and Claudio’s happiness.
*Bonus: BeatriceWho is in the fifth circle of Hell in the Inferno?
The wrathful and sullen
How long was Dr. Manette imprisoned in the Bastille?
18 years
When Montag is on the subway reading the Bible, he keeps mixing up the sentence “consider the lilies of the field” with an advertisement for what product?
Denham’s dentifrice
What is the last name of the main character in the novel Holes?
*Bonus: Why is his last name important?
Yelnats
*Its too long to type, I’ll tell you