JTTW
North Korean Lit
Middle Eastern Lit
Antigone
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100

True/False: Journey to the West is based on a real journey

What is true? 

100

The system of government does North Korea has

What is communism?

100

Setting of the Book of Esther

What is Persia? 

100

Setting of Antigone

Thebes (in Ancient Greece) 

100

The names of both my cats

What are Hobbes and Ruthie? 

200

The Monkey King's name (and meaning) 

What is Sun Wukong ("Awakened to Emptiness")?

200

The act of kindness that caused Joseph Kim to start working hard at school and other parts of his life. 

What is the last chicken wing, given to him by his foster father? 

200

Removed from her position

Who is Queen Vasti? 

200

Antigone's father is most famous for this

(Unwittingly) killing his father and marrying his mother

200

Greek theatre festivals were dedicated to this god

Who is Dionysus?

300

Name BOTH: Tripitaka's Quest & the Final Reward

1: What is bring the Buddhist scrolls from India to China?

2: What is Enlightenment?

300

This is someone Joseph Kim hasn't seen since he escaped North Korea (name one)

Acceptable answers: his mother, his sister

300

In the story of Jael, the prophet Deborah says this to Israel's general: 

What is "Israel's deliverance will come from a woman"?

300

Antigone's 2 main reasons for burying Polynices

1) Loyalty to her family (love)

2) Loyalty to the law of the gods (duty)

300

DAILY DOUBLE! What we call a character who has sympathetic qualities but has a fatal flaw that leads them to sorrow, destruction, or death (include an example) 

What is a Tragic Hero? 

Examples: Romeo, Juliet, Creon, Antigone, Anakin Skywalker...

400

Why Monkey was trapped under a mountain

Accepted Buddha's challenge and peed on his hand, thinking he had escaped it.  

400

The name of the excerpt we read from Hyeonseo Lee

What is the Girl with Seven Names? 

400
Never mentioned in the Book of Esther

What is God's name? 

400

The 3 modes of argument Haemon uses when he talks to his father

What are Logos, Pathos, and Ethos? 

400

Name all 4 main characters from Journey to the West 

Monkey, Pigsy, Tripitaka, Sandy 

500

The name of the town that Monkey saved

What is Phoenix-Immortal?

500

Name TWO aspects of Lee's life that was supervised/ controlled by the government

Possible answers: photo of the Great Leader cleaned with a special cloth, radio always on, neighborhood supervisor, house inspections

500

The situation with Jael's husband and how it helped Jael 

He made a treaty with Israel's enemies and lived closer to them, inadvertently creating the perfect place for Sisera to feel safe. 

500

1) Prophet's name

2) What he predicts about Creon's family

1) Teiresias 

2) Haemon will die 

500

Chooses the members of Team Tripitaka

Who is Guanyin? 

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