The Namesake
Transcendentalism
The Scarlet Letter
The Great Gatsby
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100

The work that Gogol's name comes from

What is Nikolai Gogol's "The Overcoat"

100

The father of transcendentalism

Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?

100

The crime that Hester commits

What is adultery?

100

Tom Buchanan is associated with this color

What is red?

100

The two types of animals Macomber and Wilson hunt for

What are lion and cape buffalo?

200

Where Gogol goes to college

What is Yale?

200

The century that transcendentalism was founded

What is the 19th century?

200

She invites Hester to a witch ritual (hint: sister of the governor)

Who is Mistress Hibbins?

200

This person is the only one to show up at Gatsby's funeral besides Nick and Gatsby's father

Who is Owl Eyes?

200

This quote: "Want to take pictures?" is said by this person

Who is Robert Wilson?

300

The theme that this quote represents: "Ashima's eyes fill with tears as Gogol's mouth eagerly invites the spoon. She can't help wishing her own brother were here to feed him, her own parents to bless him with their hands on his head."

What is isolation?

300

Where Thoreau wrote his work, Walden

What is a cabin in the woods? (Concord Massachusetts)

300

This is a symbol of public shame and humiliation (besides the A)

What is the scaffold?

300

Name a literary device shown: “On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn.”

What are situational irony and personification?

300

How Francis Macomber feels the second day of the hunt

What is eager / happy?

400

Name a habit of Moushumi that Gogol does not like.

What is smoking, keeping her old wedding dress, not changing her last name, her friends from Brown?

400

Where transcendentalists looked to as their primary source of divine revelation. it's not the Bible

What is nature?

400

Name a reason Hester decides to stay in Boston in a cottage outside the woods.

What is a familiar environment, the father of Pearl is still in Boston, she needs to face her sin/purge her soul?

400

Gatsby tells Nick that his parents lived in the Midwest in what city (it leaves a hole in his story)

What is San Francisco?

400

This code hero trait is NOT shown by Francis Macomber when he fails to hunt the lion

What is bravery / not running away?

500

Where Gogol introduces himself as Nikhil for the first time

What is a college party?

500

This author was an anti-transcendentalist (hint: we've read something by them)

Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?

500

This type of literary device is shown: Chillingsworth says the town worries that "another year may come about, and find their pastor gone." Dimmesdale replies, "Yea, to another world." 

(hint: there are different types of this literary device)

What is dramatic irony?

500

What type of foreshadowing is shown with this quote: “We pushed aside curtains that were like pavilions, and felt over innumerable feet of dark wall for electric light switches--once I tumbled with a sort of splash upon the keys of a ghostly piano.”

What are ominous hints?

500

This is the one instance where Wilson does not exemplify code hero traits (hint: it happens near the end)

What is making a scene after Francis's death / emotional investment in Francis's death (teasing Margo Macomber)