Quick Quotes
In "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator keeps insisting this about his mental state.
What is "I am not mad"?
What Antigone and Frederick Douglass have in common in their resistance to authority.
What is they both risk their lives to resist unjust laws?
In "The Lottery," the black box symbolizes this.
What is 'outdated tradition'?
In "The Tell-Tale Heart," this is what the narrator does with the old man's body.
What is hide it under the floorboards?
A major theme in 'Fahrenheit 451' (multiple answers accepted).
What is censorship?
In "Big Yellow Taxi," Joni Mitchell sings about them paving paradise and putting up this.
What is a parking lot?
How the narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Creon are similar in their downfall.
What is 'they are both destroyed by their own actions.'
The beating heart in "The Tell-Tale Heart" represents this.
What is guilt?
In "Fahrenheit 451," this happens to Montag's house after he is discovered with books.
What is it gets burned?
Hugh Auld says that if Frederick Douglass learns to read, he will become this.
What is 'unfit to be a slave.'
In "Fahrenheit 451," Mildred calls the people on her TV walls this.
What is her family?
Montag kills this character.
Who is Beatty?
In "Fahrenheit 451," books symbolize this that the government wants to control.
What is knowledge?
In "The Night I Won the Right to the Streets of Memphis," what the mother forces her son to do.
What is fight the boys who are bullying him?
The central moral conflict in "Antigone."
What is religious law versus civil law?
In "The Night I Won the Right to the Streets of Memphis," the mother tells her son he cannot do this until he fights back.
What is 'come home'?
This character serves as a catalyst (an inspiration for change) for change in another character's life.
Who is Clarisse McClellan?
Learning to read represents this for Frederick Douglass.
What is freedom?
What Antigone does that gets her in trouble with Creon.
What is bury her brother Polynices?
The philosophical question raised in "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas."
What is whether happiness built on suffering can be justified?
In "Big Yellow Taxi", Joni Mitchell sing's this sentimental line about understanding the value of important things in one's life'
What is a 'don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till its gone'?
The group of people Montag meets outside the city at the end of "Fahrenheit 451."
Who are former professors and intellectuals who memorize books?
In "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," the source of the city's happiness.
What is the suffering of one child?
he choice that citizens face in "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas."
What is staying in utopia or leaving for an uncertain future?
The common theme that connects "Antigone," "Fahrenheit 451," and Frederick Douglass's narrative.
What is individual conscience versus authority?