The Devil's Highway
The Yuma 14 came from this state in Mexico.
What is Veracruz?
This is the state in which Their Eyes Were Watching God is set.
What is Florida?
This is the country in which The Importance of Being Earnest is set.
What is England? (or, Great Britain or the United Kingdom/UK)
This is the country in which Things Fall Apart is set.
What is Nigeria?
He is the author of The Things They Carried.
Who is Tim O'Brien?
He is the author of The Devil's Highway.
Who is Luis Urrea? (or, who is Urrea?)
He was Janie's second husband; the mayor of Eatonville, he was full of pride (or hubris) and often gloated about his accomplishments.
Who is Joe? (or, Who is Jody Starks?)
He is the author of The Importance of Being Earnest.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
He is the protagonist in Things Fall Apart.
Who is Okonkwo?
As a lieutenant, he was the leader of the platoon; he was in love with a girl named Martha and carried letters from her. (First and last name)
Who is Jimmy Cross?
"Jesus" Mendez's job; these people guide "walkers" or immigrants crossing (often illegally) into the US from Mexico
What is a coyote? (Or, what is a guia?)
Janie started dating this man after her second husband died; she found deeper love than she had ever known with him
Who is Tea Cake?
This literary device means to make fun of people or institutions to try to get them to change; The Importance of Being Earnest makes use of it to mock and criticize Victorian society.
What is satire?
Things Fall Apart depicts how Nigeria was affected by the imperialism brought on by the government of this European country.
What is England? (or, Great Britain or the United Kingdom)
A Native American, he was a kind of moral center of the platoon; his death caused the soldiers to search for who was to blame.
Who is Kiowa?
Yuma, town from which the Yuma 14 got their nickname is in this state
What is Arizona?
Janie was raised by this woman, not by her birth mother.
Who is Nanny?
Jack Worthing was found inside one of these in the cloak room of Victoria Station as an infant; he was then adopted.
What is a handbag? Or, what is a bag?
Okonkwo lived in exile for this many years after accidentally killing a member of his own tribe (clan).
What is seven years?
Girlfriend of soldier Mark Fossie; according to a story, she came to Vietnam to visit her boyfriend and went on to join up with the Green Berets, later becoming a brutal, violent warrior living in the jungle.
Who is Mary Anne?
Urrea describes this many stages of hyperthermia (or heat death) to dramatize what the Yuma 14 went through.
What is six?
Tea Cake died due to being infected with this disease.
What is rabies?
At one point Algernon and Jack both want this done to them; this ceremony is a sacrament in which one gets a name (or a new name)
What is christening?
Okonkwo and others in his village farm this crop; Okonkwo thinks of it as "the king of crops" and "a man's crop"
What are yams? / What is a yam?
Rat Kiley's job in the platoon
What is a medic?