A Wrinkle in Time
Literary Terms
Random Stuff You Should Know
Africa
Grammar and Stuff
100
The Murry children are Meg, Charles Wallace, and these twins.
Who are Sandy and Denys?
100
The main character (hero) of a story.
What is the protagonist?
100
The language spoken in Belgium.
What is French?
100
The currency of Cameroon, C.A.R., Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
What is the Central African Franc?
100
An action word.
What is a verb?
200
This is the planet on which Mr. Murry is being held.
What is Camazotz?
200
A "big idea" (and not lesson) in a story.
What is a theme?
200
In science, an idea to be tested; a possible explanation.
What is a hypothesis?
200
The capital of Nigeria.
What is Abuja?
200
He, she, it, they, him, her - for instance.
What are pronouns?
300
In a strange story, one of the three Mrs. W's reveals that she used to be one of these.
What is a star?
300
The three elements of any story.
What are plot, character, and setting?
300
The man who wrote Romeo and Juliet and Othello and other plays.
Who is William Shakespeare?
300
The country in which this photo was taken: 
What is Tanzania?
300
A verb that does not need an object - for example, I swim, she sighs.
What is intransitive?
400
Calvin is embarrassed that he is good at this because he's tall.
What is basketball?
400
The "god from the machine" - a sudden ending where everything is make ok.
What is a deus ex machina?
400
The director of Black Panther (and Fruitvale Station and Creed).
Who is Ryan Coogler?
400
The capital of Namibia.
What is Windhoek?
400
These are the parts of this sentence.
What are pronoun, verb, article, noun, preposition, adjective, noun.
500
Explain the difference between like and equal.
Equal means having the same rights. Like means identical.
500
A story with a lesson; usually short and often involving animals.
What is a fable?
500
The approximate time it takes light to get to Earth from the Sun.
What is eight minutes?
500
The longest river in Africa is the Nile; the second longest, the Congo. What is the third, after which two countries are named?
What is the Niger?
500
English is a Germanic language, while French, Spanish, Italian, and Portugese are this kind of language - which means not that they are in love, but that they come from Latin.
What is a romance language?