Unfamiliar Territory
Personal Life
Mi Clase de Ingles
Flashbacks
Class Time
100
This object, turned projectile, is launched in McCourt's general direction on the first day of his teaching career.
What is a bologna sandwich?
100
McCourt's spouse whom he has a "rocky" marriage with.
Who is Alberta?
100
McCourt's young African American girl student who pressured him into taking the class on a field trip to see a movie...
Who is Serena?
100
McCourt's strenuous and dangerous job in America.
What is work on the docks?
100
The inanimate object analogous to the structure of an English sentence.
What is a pen?
200
The animal McCourt insinuated having relations with back in Ireland.
What is a sheep?
200
The name of McCourt's only child, named in memory of one of his deceased siblings.
Who is Maggie?
200
The race of the only two boys who were not of the majority in McCourt's African American female class.
What is Puerto Rican?
200
College McCourt attended in America to receive his teaching degree.
What is NYU?
200
The college McCourt went to to pursue his doctorate.
What is Trinity College?
300
The author of the one book McCourt bough to impress American women with. (English poet he heard on radio and in hospital with Patricia)
Who is William Shakespeare?
300
The woman McCourt loved during his college years, whom he later realized was the mother of one of his troubled students, Andrew.
Who is June?
300
McCourt's homosexual student who initially refused to participate in the class reading of recipes.
Who is Brian?
300
McCourt's sibling who, as a baby, was requested to be purchase on the Limerick streets.
Who is Malachy?
300
McCourt's Latin phrase learned from his Leavy teachers; repeated through his whole book. (English translation also accepted)
What is "mea culpa"? ("I am guilty" in English)
400
The name of the first high school McCourt taught at.
What is the McKee Vocational and Technical High School?
400
Family name of the couple McCourt's wife forces him to socialize with.
Who are the Dahlbergs.
400
McCourt's Jewish student who aspired the "future farmer of America" against his parent's wishes.
Who is Bob Stein?
400
Big Italian man McCourt almost got into a hook fight with while working on the docks.
Who is Fat Dominic?
400
The famous poem McCourt teaches his students. (we learned it too on mock-schedule day with Mrs. Green)
What is "My Papa's Waltz"?
500
The government issued mandate that drove McCourt to eventually become a teacher through higher education.
What is the GI Bill?
500
The New York city borough McCourt resided in after his divorce.
What is the Bronx?
500
The nationalities of the two high school sweethearts who broke up over racial tension between their families.
What are Irish and Italian?
500
McCourt's Irish teacher (in his childhood) that took a particular liking to him.
Who is Mr. O'Halloran?
500
McCourt unrealistically imagined his student would appreciate the romanticism and defiance of this famous American poet.
Who is Walt Whitman?
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