Macbeth
This is the country in which Shakespeare lived.
This minister in The Crucible started out optimistic in his ability to provide justice to people accused of witchcraft, but eventually became cynical.
Who is Rev. Hale?
The Awakening is set in this state.
What is Louisiana?
This is the name of the author of The Color Purple.
Who is Alice Walker?
In this poem by T. S. Eliot, the title speaker dances around an "overwhelming question."
What is "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
Macbeth was set in this country.
What is Scotland?
This plant outside the prison house in Chapter 1 of The Scarlet Letter represents resilience, hope, and divine mercy.
What is the rose bush?
DAILY DOUBLE
This term refers to descendants of French and Spanish settlers in America, an important group in The Awakening.
What are the Creoles?
Monrovia is the capital of this African country, which was settled by former slaves in the 19th century.
What is Liberia?
DAILY DOUBLE
During our Color Purple unit, we analyzed the painting Der Völler, in which Georg Emmanuel Opiz depicts the costs of this cardinal sin.
What is gluttony?
This word finishes the following quote about life: "It is a tale / told by an idiot, full of sound and fury / signifying ____________."
What is "nothing"?
DAILY DOUBLE
The Crucible treats the Salem Witch Trials as an allegory for this "-ism" in 1950s America.
What is "McCarthyism"?
Edna Pontillier's father was a general in this war.
What is the US Civil War?
Celie frequently uses "us" when it would be proper to use "we," which is significant because "us" has this syntactic function in sentences, perhaps reflecting Celie's life expeirence.
What is the object?
Who is Phoebe Bridgers?
This character utters the famous line "Out damned spot!"
Who is Lady Macbeth?
Mary Warren planted this object in the Proctors' house as evidence that Elizabeth was a witch.
What is a poppet?
Edna met Alcée Arobin while engaged in this activity unbecoming of a woman.
What is gambling?
Shug, Celie, and Mary Agnes go to this southern city after leaving Albert's home.
What is Memphis?
In a Margaret Atwood short story we read early in the year, this food item was pictured as floating above a table.
What is a loaf of bread?
This is the word in Macbeth for a lord.
What is "thane"?
This Puritan woman, who was mentioned in Chapter 1 of The Scarlet Letter, was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s for challenging religious authority and speaking out about faith.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
During the dinner party scene, Chopin alludes to the Symposium by this ancient Greek philosopher.
Who is Plato?
DAILY DOUBLE
The Olinka recognized this object as their god, and told the missionaries the story of how that became so when they first arrived among them.
What is roofleaf?
The woman, known as an anchoress, wrote The Revelations of Divine Love--the earliest suriving work of English literature written by a woman.
Who is Julian of Norwich?