Of Mice and Men
Non-fiction texts
Poetry
Coursework
Potluck
100

Who in Of Mice and Men said:

“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world”

George

100

What is the name of the non-fiction text we did for our recent GCSE mock?

Explorers or boys messing about?

100

What is the name of the poem about a person who takes photos of people in conflict and how this effects their psyche?

War Photographer

100

Which two poem’s did most people compare for our Poetry and Prose coursework?

Disabled and Out out-

100

Who is described as the “prince of the ranch” in Of Mice and Men?

Slim

200

Which four characters represent loneliness in Of Mice and Men?

George 

Curley’s wife

Candy 

Crooks

200

What was the profession of George Alagiah?

Reporter for the BBC

200

“Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me. Otherwise kill me.” Is the final line of which test in our anthology?

Prayer Before Birth

200

What is the name of the era that James VI or I ruled in?

Jacobean era

200

Which famous Shakespeare play is Out Out- a reference to?

Macbeth

300

What date did the stock market crash?

October 24, 1929

300

What is the name of the writer of Between a Rock and a Hard Place?

Aron Ralston

300

What was the year of the French Revolution?

1789

300

Which line is repeated throughout the poem “An Unknown Girl”?

“An unknown girl is hennaing my hand”

300

What old flower does the teacher have on her desk in “Half-past Two”?

Chrysanthemums

400

What is the name of the cathouse the men visit?

Suzy

400

How do you spell the name of the writer of Young and dyslexic?

Benjamin Zephaniah

400

The “roar of tongues” is a metaphor/zoomorphism in which poem in the Anthology?

Blessing

400

What was the name of the shop that Sheila Birling got Eva/Daisy fired from?

Milwards

400

In “My Last Duchness” who is the Duke supposedly based off?

The Duke of Ferrara 

500

What is the name of the book Crooks has in his room about rights of African Americans?

California civil code

500

What is the western child television show that Emma Levine compares the donkey race to in “From a Game of Polo with a Headless Goat”?

Wacky Races

500

Who wrote “Half Past Two”?

U A Fanthorpe 

500

In which Act and Scene does Macbeth kill Duncan?

Act 2 Scene 2

500

In a “Passage to Africa” what is the name of the remote hamlet in the “back of beyond”?

Gufgaduud