Hughes That Man?
The Plath of Least Resistance
When Buckley Was Two Years Old
I'm 'Enry the Fourth I Am, I Am
Mod: You'll See
100

The end of the quote: "other thoughts... came across the ____________."

What is "tightrope"?

100

The age at which Sylvia Plath died.

What is thirty?

100

The last line of the novel.

"He loved Big Brother."

100

King Henry IV calls Hotspur this Roman god "in swaddling clothes."

Who is Mars?

100

There are this many ways of looking at a blackbird.

What is thirteen?

200

The civilization referred to in 'Red''s reference to a sacrificial "altar".

What is Aztec?

200

The number of times Plath writes 'nor him' in 'Fever 103'.

What is three?

200

The word missing in the title of Goldstein's book: The Theory and __________ of Oligarchal Collectivism.

What is Practice?

200

TWO of the techniques in Hals' line, "like bright metal on a sullen ground."

Simile and juxtaposition

200

Number of speakers whose dialogue is allowed in a single paragraph.

What is one?

300

The lapsed European country Hughes invokes when discussing both Otto's "plans" and "backbone"?

What is Prussia?

300

The English translation of 'Ach du', repeated throughout 'Daddy'.

What is 'Oh, you'?

300

The last name of Winston's neighbours.

What is Parsons?

300

The name of any of the characters from traditional morality plays which Falstaff is called by.

What are Revered Vice or Monsieur Remorse?

300

Keeping with the tradition of using real life 'model' to inform the creation of characters, this actor used weirdo Seventies musician Tom Waits as the basis for a 2009 film portrayal.  

Who is Heath Ledger?

400
And three of the four objects mentioned in 'Fulbright Scholars'' tetracolon of people/things Plath smiles for.

What are "cameras", "judges", "strangers" and/or "frighteners"?

400

The poem in which Plath alludes to Coleridge's landmark romantic poem 'Kubla Khan'.

What is 'Lady Lazarus'?

400

The name of the city in which Winston lives.

What is Airstrip One?

400

The person whom Falstaff refers to as "neither fish nor fowl."

Who is Mistress Quickly (the hostess of the tavern)?

400

British writer and future second wife of Buckley who wrote 'That Crafty Feeling'.

Who is Zadie Smith?

500

Early 20th century poet who wrote 'Strange Meeting', alluded to in 'A Picture of Otto'.

Who is Wilfred Owen?

500

The only member of this class whose name appears in a Plath poem (which we studied).

Who is Ruby?

500

The ironic name of the apartment building in which Winston lives.

What is Victory Mansions?

500

The way that Douglas was captured.

What is falling down a hill while running away?

500

The name of the Marine stranded in the Afghan desert on New Years Even in 'What Time Is It Right Now, Where You Are?'

What is Sally?