This is the name of the university Mitch attended.
What is Brandies?
100
What secret did Morrie have to keep from his younger brother?
Their real mom died and Eva was their stepmother.
100
According to Morrie, humans resist dying because they believe this.
What is "that they are above nature"?
100
A scene that interrupts the ongoing actions in a story to show an event that happened earlier.
What is a Flashback?
100
“It is a winter in my childhood, on a snow-packed hill in our suburban neighborhood.”
What is a flashback?
200
Morrie feels that our culture causes us to be this.
What is unhappy?
200
How did David, Morrie's brother, die?
What is polio?
200
This is the subject Morrie taught at Brandies University.
What is Sociology?
200
The use of hints or clues in a story to suggest what action is to come.
What is foreshadowing?
200
The pink hibiscus is a symbol of this.
What is Morrie's decaying/dying body?
300
Who is Janine?
Mitch's wife.
300
How did Eva influence Morrie’s life?
She taught him the importance of education.
300
Morrie’s wish is to die with:
a. Anger
b. Sadness
c. Serenity
d. Detachment
What is C?
300
An object person or place that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself, usually a learned idea or concept; some concrete thing that stands for something abstract.
What is a symbol?
300
At one point in Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie says “his tank is almost empty”.
What is an example of a metaphor?
400
What does Mitch do with the money from "Tuesdays with Morrie"?
He helps pay off Morrie's medical bills.
400
How did Morrie’s father die?
He was mugged, ran away, and died of a heart attack.
400
This is the nickname Mitch gave Morrie.
What is Coach?
400
A short statement, sometimes humorous, that attempts to state a general principal about human behavior.
What is an aphorism?
400
Which of the following is not an example of a motif used in the book?
a. Textbooks
b. Food
c. the media
d. the pink hibiscus plant
What is A?
500
What happened to Peter, Mitch's brother?
Moved to Spain, pancreatic cancer, sought treatment without help from family. Cut off contact.
500
Morrie’s father can be best describes as
a. A mentor in the education business
b. A nurturing and supportive parent
c. A person who dies in a factory
d. A poor person who works in a factory
What is D?
500
This is where Morrie does an internship before becoming a professor.
What is a mental hospital?
500
A situation, incident, idea, or image that is repeated. significantly in a literary work.
What is a motif?
500
Morrie labels Ted Koppel a narcissist. Based on the context of the conversation, we can assume narcissist means: