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What are Morries sons names?
Rob and Jon
What was Morrie not doing for the first time in 35 consecutive autumns?
Teaching at Brandeis
What type of figurative language is this? “Morrie attached the long plastic tubing to his nose, clamping on his nostrils like a leech.”
Simile
What plant does the book start with?
A Hibiscus Plant
Where does Rob live?
Tokyo
It’s obvious in this section that Morrie’s condition is starting to get much worse. Name one characteristic of that change you read.
Acceptable answers: oxygen mask, not working anymore, no more solid food, coughing attacks
What type of figurative language is this? “So I worked at a feverish pace, and I braced myself for cancer. I could feel its breath."
Personification
Where does Mitch's Brother live?
Europe
Mitch’s brother got the same kind of cancer their uncle did; what was it?
Pancreatic Cancer
What do Mitch and Morrie talk about on the Fourth Tuesday?
Death
What type of figurative language is this? “Without love, we are birds with broken wings.”
Metaphor
What newspaper does Mitch work for?
Detroit Free Press
What does Morrie’s wife Charlotte do for work?
Teaches at MIT
What does Morrie really begin to prepare for in this section?
Passing away
What type of figurative language is being used? “His glasses hung around his neck,and when he lifted them to his eyes,they slid around his temples,as if he were trying to put them on someone else in the dark
Simile
How old was Mitch's uncle when he died from pancreatic cancer?
44
What 3 religions was Morrie mainly influenced by?
Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism
On what day do Morrie and his family usually respond to the letters?
Sunday
What type of figurative language is being used? “I waited for it the way a condemned man waits for the executioner."
Metaphor
Who says this? “Too-dayy… I feel like… the luckiest maaan…on the face of the earth…”
Lou Gehrig