Show:
Setting
"Games"
Characters
Literary devices
Identify
100
The decade in which the story is set
What is the 1960s?
100
"onesies, twosies, threesies, foursies"
What is jacks?
100
The identify of "They" in the following lines: "They had in their infinite patience, in their infinite foresight, in their infinite wisdom already imagined a man standing over the console with his two arms outstretched trying to span with his two arms outstretched the distance between the locks."
What is the government (military leaders)?
100
The point of view from which the story is told.
What is first person?
100
the "bird" that will "fly"
What is a nuclear missile
200
The building in which the story is set.
What is an underground missle silo?
200
The "game" the narrator and Shotwell play regarding their guns.
What is both pretend to watch the other's .45, but both know the other will shoot him with his hidden weapon that he pretends not to know about?
200
This character never speaks in the story
Who is Shotwell?
200
A story such as "Game" that makes something in society look ridiculous as a way of showing what is wrong with it is called this
What is a satire?
200
The keys both characters have.
What are the keys to the console that will fire the nuclear missile?
300
The reinforced concrete walls are painted this color.
What is pale green?
300
The object used to play a game that the narrator used 4500 words to describe on the wall.
What is a baseball bat?
300
He is "not himself"
Who is Shotwell, according to the narrator?
300
The narrator's main conflict
What is man vs. society?
300
The implement the narrator uses to draw and write on the wall of the bunker.
What is a diamond engagement ring meant for Lucy.
400
The number of days the narrator and Shotwell have been in the setting.
What is one hundred thirty-three?
400
"Shotwell is not himself but I do not know it . . ."
What is a game the characters play with each other?
400
The narrator says the target is this city
What is he doesn't know?
400
Paranoid and unbalanced
What is the narrator's tone?
400
The narrator writes descriptions of these on the wall.
What are natural forms such as a shell, a leaf, a stone, or animals?
500
The narrator says he believes he and Shotwell are in one of these states.
What is Utah, Montana, or Idaho?
500
The "game" the government is playing.
What is nuclear war?
500
The rank of the story's narrator
What is a lieutenant in the U.S. Armed Forces?
500
An interpretation of the story's ambiguous ending
What is that the narrator and Shotwell fire the missile? What is that the narrator and Shotwell are the only people alive in the world?
500
Shotwell is taking classes from the University of Wisconsin to get this
What is a master's degree in business administration?