Vocabulary
Usage
The Count of Monte Cristo Characters
The Odyssey
The Count of Monte Cristo Plot
100
This word means: a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner
What is parody?
100
Use the first article before words that begin with a vowel sound. Use the second article before words that begin with a consonant sound.
When do you use "an" and "a"?
100
This character was Edmond Dantès' mentor, wrote a book, told Dantès about the treasure on the island of Monte Cristo, and died after his third cataleptic fit.
Who is Abbe Faria?
100
This god/goddess comes down in disguise to help Telemachus and Odysseus.
Who is Athena?
100
The object that provokes Villefort to imprison Edmond Dantes.
What is the letter to Villefort's father?
200
This word means powerless; lacking strength.
What is impotent?
200
Use this word when referring to an exclusion instead of when referring to the receiving or approval of something.
When do you use except instead of accept?
200
This character tries to poison Valentine and Nortier, and kills Barrois, Edouard, the Marquis and Marquise de Saint-Méran and herself.
Who is Madame de Villefort?
200
If Odysseus' men eat this on the island of Thrinacia, their return home will be very long and dangerous.
What are Helios's sun cattle?
200
M. Villefort sees this object in his carriage and remembers his wife who is going to commit suicide.
What is a fan?
300
This word means keenness of judgement
What is perspicacity?
300
My grandma told me to eat carrots because they are a (healthy/healthful) snack.
What is healthful?
300
This character says this quote, "Hatred is blind, anger is foolhardy and he who pours out vengeance risks having to drink a bitter draft".
Who is Franz d'Epinay?
300
This person tells Odysseus to eat an herb so he will become immune and then to threaten Circe with his sword.
Who is Hermes?
300
The Count disguises himself as this when talking to Caderousse.
What is a priest?
400
This word means done without care; in a routine fashion
What is perfunctory?
400
Use this word when referring to the quantity of something that is measured as a whole (not by its individual contents) instead of when referring to something that has a clearly defined count.
When do you use amount instead of number?
400
This character takes Danglars to Luigi Vampa and sells him food while he is in jail.
Who is Peppino?
400
This person tells Odysseus that his journey home can either be short and safe or long and dangerous.
Who is Tiresias?
400
Danglars sees this item in Luigi Vampa's cell and it gives him hope of not dying.
What is a real bed?
500
This word means skillful; clever.
What is adroit?
500
Yesterday I (lay/laid) my book down on the table.
What is laid?
500
This character says this quote, “'God! God! God'! he murmured, without knowing what he was saying. He saw only God behind the culmination which had just taken place”.
Who is M. Villefort?
500
The 12 main gods and goddesses.
Who are Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Hera, Ares, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, Hermes, Artemis, and Hephaestus?
500
In the Count's letter to Maximilien at the end, he tells him that the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words...
What are wait and hope?