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Poetry
Grammar
Persepolis
Country Units
Life of Pi
100
A poem consisting of 14 lines of iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet?
100
Identify the type of verb (action or linking) in the sentence below. "Corey, please don't run in the hallway!"
What is an action verb?
100
The person with whom Marjane has nightly conversations.
Who is God?
100
The author of the Joy Luck Club.
Who is Amy Tan?
100
The religious traditions Pi Patel practices.
What is Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity?
200
When lines of poetry run into the next with no pause.
What is enjambment?
200
Identify the type of verb (action or linking) in the sentence below: The class seems nervous about the final exam.
What is a linking verb?
200
The political issue that causes conflict in Persepolis.
What is the Iran-Iraq War?
200
The author of Les Miserables?
Who is Victor Hugo?
200
Richard Parker represents this character in the double stories.
Who is Pi?
300
A direct comparison between two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
300
Identify the predicate noun/adjective in the sentence below: My coach was a professional golfer when he was younger.
What is golfer?
300
Marjane's parents send her to this country to be safe from the war.
What is Austria?
300
The author of The Chosen.
Who is Chaim Potok?
300
The zebra represents this character in the double stories.
Who is the Chinese sailor?
400
"Zip, Boom, Bang!" is an example of this.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
Identify the direct object AND indirect object in the sentence below: Mom, pass me the potatoes, please.
What is (potatoes = direct object), (me = indirect object)?
400
A symbolic gift to young Iranian soldiers, said to get them into heaven upon death in battle.
What is a golden key?
400
The story of Jean Valjean primarily addresses which social issue of the time?
What is the plight of criminals and the fairness of the justice system?
400
The city from which Pi and his family emigrate.
What is Pondicherry?
500
A patterned repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is meter?
500
At my brother's little league game, the right fielder was (laying / lying) in the grass, looking up at the clouds!
What is lying?
500
The enforcers of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. (Hint: They almost arrest Marji for wearing Western-style tennis shoes and a jean jacket.)
What are the Guardians of the Revolution?
500
A motif addressed in The Joy Luck Club.
What is (1) mother-daughter relationships, (2) the struggle of immigrants in America, or (3) cultural identity?
500
A major motif in the Life of Pi.
What is (1) the nature of Truth, (2) the will to live/survive, (3) doubt, or (4) the nature of faith.