Cry the Beloved
Persepolis
Graphic Novel Stuff
Vocab
Riddles
100

Stephen Kumalo searches for multiple people in Johannesburg. Name 3 of them. 

Absalom

Gertrude

John

Sibeko's Daughter

100

Who was the leader at the start of the Iranian Revolution? (The one who was thrown out of the country)

Mohammed Reza Shah

100

What is each distinct part of a graphic novel called

Panel

100

Not in a straight or level position

Askew

100

What word contains 26 letters but only has three syllables?

Alphabet

200

What is a "Kloof"?

A ravine

200
What two countries were the greatest influence on the Shah? 

The United States and Great Britain

200

Is Persepolis a Graphic Novel or a Comic Book?

(This might be a trick question)

Both. (By definition a Graphic Novel, but the author calls it a Comic Book)

200

A person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal

Fanatic

200

I add 5 to 9 and get 2. The answer is correct, so what am I?

A clock (or the time)

300

Arthur Jarvis, when he was killed, was writing an essay about crime. What was this essay about?

Answers may vary (Why crime is increasing, why black South Africans commit crimes, why white South Africans are partially to blame for black crime, things that are permissible and not permissible, etc.) 
300

Where does Marji's father say that the "Real Arab Invasion" or the "New Arab Invasion" was coming from?

Within their own country/government

300

When a panel goes across a whole page, it is called what?

A splash

300

A person who spends money in a recklessly extravagant way

Or

Someone who returns home after leaving, often a wayward child

Prodigal

300

Who has married many women but was never married?

A pastor (or a priest if you're catholic)

400
Absalom was pronounced guilty in the court case. However, his cousin and this other character were not guilty. 

Johannes Pafuri

400

In detail, describe what a "Key to Paradise" was and who it was given to

Answers may vary but should include: Plastic Key, given to teenage boys who were poor, guaranteed heaven/paradise if they died in war. 

400

When there is a section of dialogue or explanation that is separated from the panel by a hard line, what is it called? 

Narration (or Voice-over)
400

A person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs

Martyr

400

A man goes out for a walk during a storm with nothing to protect him from the rain. He doesn’t have a hat, a hood or an umbrella. But by the end of his walk, there isn’t a single wet hair on his head. Why doesn’t the man have wet hair?

He's bald

500

Absalom pled "not guilty" to murder. What did he originally want to plead "guilty" to? 

Culpable Homicide 

500

When Uncle Anoosh fled to Moscow the first time, it was because the Iranian Government was after him and his uncle because they declared the independence of what country? 

Azerbaijan

500

Correctly spell the word that is defined as "the process of creating or using words that phonetically imitate, resemble, or suggest the sound they describe"

Onomatopoeia

500

Workers, or the working-class people, regarded collectively

Proletariat

500

Where is the only time where today comes before yesterday?

When you're reading the dictionary

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