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Who Said It?
Plot Points
Motifs
Name That Chapter Pt. 1
Name That Chapter Pt. 2
100
"The Karamazov force... the force of the Karamazov baseness" (263).
Who is Ivan?
100
"Alyosha went in. Lise looked somehow embarrassed and suddenly blushed all over. She seemed to be ashamed of something, and, as always happens in such cases, she quickly began speaking of something quite unrelated, as if at that moment only this unrelated thing interested her." Explain the what is happening and the significance
What is the relationship between Alyosha and Lise.
100
You have 1 minute to find a quote in book 5 that has evidence of freedom in it.
Various answers.
100
Ivan asks Alyosha to join him and says he has begun to admire him and would like to get to know him better.
What is chapter 3?
100
Ivan is having trouble accepting God and the world He has created. He doesn't think it's fair that some people's lives suck and other's are great.
What is chapter 4?
200
"Such things you love not with your mind, not with logic, but with your insides, your guts, you love your first young strength... Do you understand any of this blather, Alyoshka, or not?" (230)
Who is Ivan?
200
"Even though I come here as an acquaintance, even here the gentleman harasses me cruelly with his ceaseless inquiries about the master; well, he says, how are things there, who comes and who goes, and can I tell him anything else? Twice he even threatened me with death." "With death?" Explain what is going on and the significance.
What is the conversation between Alyosha and Smerdyakov
200
You have one minute to find a quote from book 5 that has evidence of identity in it.
Various Answers
200
Smerdyakov has an epileptic seizure and is now bed ridden.
What is chapter 7?
200
While staking out the gazebo, Alyosha overhears Smerdyakov serenading the housekeeper's daughter.
What is chapter 2?
300
"I could have done even better, miss, and I'd know a lot more, if it wasn't for my destiny ever since childhood. I'd have killed a man in a duel with a pistol for calling me low-born" (224).
Who is Smerdyakov?
300
"But in the end the thing that finally most irritated _________________ and filled him with such loathing was a sort of loathsome and peculiar familiarity, which __________ began displaying towards him more and more markedly." Fill in the blanks, explain what is happening, and tell us the significance. If you cannot do all three, you get no points.
What is the relationship (kind of) between Smerdyakov and Ivan Fyodorovich. Fill in the blank: Ivan Fyodorovich, Smerdyakov.
300
"And if in the name of heavenly bread thousands and tens of thousands will follow you, what will become of the millions and tens of thousands of millions of creatures who will not be strong enough to forgot earthly bread for the sake of the heavenly?" What motif is represented and what is the significance?
What is religion?
300
Ivan is worried about what would happen if Ivan goes to Moscow, Russia.
What is chapter 3?
300
Alyosha walks to Ivan and kisses him on the lips.
What is chapter 5?
400
"And the sticky little leaves, and the precious graves, and the blue sky, and the woman you love! How will you live, what will you love them with? Is it possible, with such hell in your heart and your head?" (263).
Who is Alyosha?
400
"You're a remarkably good 'implorator of unholy suits,' as Polonius says in Hamlet, So you caught me, but let it be, I'm glad. A nice God you've got, if man created him in his image and likeness. You asked me what I was driving at: you see, I'm an amateur and collector of certain little facts; I copy them down from newspapers and stores..." Who is saying this? Who are they speaking to? Explain the significance
Who is Ivan speaking to Alyosha?
400
"Go to Lise. Cheer her up, as you always manage to do so charmingly." Explain the motif that is represented and the significance.
What is love?
400
Smerdyakov says that Grigory and his wife have begun to take a medicine that makes them sleep deeply, and he is afraid that he is going to have an epileptic seizure.
What is chapter 6?
400
Smerdyakov says that he is worried about Fyodor Pavlovich because Dmitri knows the secret signs that Grushenka and Fyodor Pavlovich have agreed upon if Grushenka ever decides to be Fyodor Pavlovich’s lover.
What is chapter 6?
500
"Pines are not people, Alexei Fyodorovich, they take a long time to change" (214).
Who is Madame Khoklakov
500
"________ stood up, when over to him in silence, and gently kissed _______ on the lips" Fill in the blanks. Explain the significance.
Who is Alyosha kissing Ivan?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have one minute to find a quote that represents the motif of vengeance within book 5.
Various answers accepted.
500
Madame Khokhlakov rejects the marraige/love between Lise and Alyosha.
What is chapter 1?
500
The Grand Inquisitor says that by rejecting the three temptations, human beings would have free will.
What is chapter 5?