What is Ulrich doing at the beginning of the story and why? You MUST use a vocabulary word in your response.
He was patrolling the forest looking for Georg.
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How is Georg hurt under the tree?
His eyes are covered with blood.
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What does this line mean: “As boys, they had thirsted for one another’s blood. As men, each hoped that misfortune might fall on the other.”
They wanted to kill each other. They wanted bad luck to happen to each other.
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What is the setting of the story? Give place AND time.
In Romania in the forest before World War I
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What does the word “quarrel” mean?
An argument or to argue
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How was Ulrich feeling while he was drinking the wine and looking at Georg?
Why?
You MUST use a vocabulary word in your response.
He feels pity because Georg is suffering and Ulrich himself is drinking wine.
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According to Georg, how will his men kill Ulrich?
They will roll the tree trunk over Ulrich.
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If “both men…knew that it might be a long time before his men would find him,” why did they each say their men would come soon?
They wanted to scare each other.
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What kind of conflict is shown this sentence: “For three generations now there had been bitter feelings between the neighbors.”
Explain the conflict
External conflict. It's about how the two families hate each other.
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What does the word “circumstance” mean?
A problem, a situation
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How does Ulrich feel about the feud? Why?
He feels they are foolish. They have been fighting for a "stupid" piece of land where the trees cannot stand straight during a storm
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How does Georg make fun of Ulrich when they are both under a tree?
He says that Ulrich is trapped in his forest...the forest Ulrich himself has stolen.
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What is the “it” in the following sentence: “Many years ago, in the days of his grandfather, it had been the subject of a famous lawsuit between the Gradwitzes and a neighboring family.”
Land
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What literary technique is used this sentence? Who said it and when?
“The trees can’t even stand up straight without falling down in a storm.”
Personification. Ulrich said it when he tells Georg they have been foolish to be fighting over a piece of land.
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What do the words “twig” and “splinter” have in common in terms of their meaning?
They both are related to trees. Twig is a small branch and splinter is a sharp piece of wood.
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How is Ulrich hurt? Write TWO DIFFERENT things. You MUST use a vocabulary word in your response. (Describing both arms count as ONE thing)
The branches slashed the skin of his face. One arm is numb beneath him. Another arm is tangled in the branches.
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According to Georg, what are TWO things he and Ulrich will do when they become friends?
Use ONE vocabulary word.
They will go hunting together in the marshes. They will visit each others' homes.
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Why does Georg say, “I shall send a letter of sympathy to your family”?
To make fun of Ulrich.
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What literary technique is used this sentence? Explain what was going on in the story at that time. “An idea was slowly forming and growing in his brain.”
Personfication. Ulrich is thinking about becoming friends with Georg.
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What two words from our vocabulary list mean the same thing?
Pity and Sympathy
Interloper and Trespasser
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What are two of Ulrich’s feelings when the tree first falls on them?
Relief and anger
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Why doesn’t Georg accept Ulrich’s wine? Write TWO things.
His eyes are covered with blood, so he cannot see. Also, he does not drink wine with an enemy.
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Complete the following line said by Ulrich: “The same to you, Georg Znaeym, forest thief. _______________! _________________!”
Poacher. Trespasser.
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What literary technique is used this sentence and what is the author’s purpose in using this literary technique: “He listened…through the whistling of the wind.”
Personification. Author wants to show how windy it was.
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What does the word “revive” mean? When was it used in the story?
To come back to life. It was used when Ulrich drank the wine and the wine revived him.