Romeo & Juliet
Of Mice and Men
The Scarlet Ibis
The Odyssey
Vocabulary
100
In what two cities does this play take place?
Verona and Mantua
100
Who wrote Of Mice and Men?
John Steinbeck
100
What causes the discord between Brother and Doodle's relationship?
Doodle is disabled and Brother is ashamed of him.
100
Who wrote The Odyssey?
Homer
100
This word means seemingly everywhere.
What is ubiquitous?
200
Who sells Romeo the poison?
The Apothecary
200
What is the Aunt's name in OMAM?
Aunt Clara
200
What is Doodle's full name?
William Armstrong
200
What is Odysseus's main flaw?
His pride.
200
This word means to criticize something in public.
What is denounce?
300
The sonnet at the beginning of Romeo and Juliet is referred to as what?
The Prologue
300
Where does Of Mice and Men take place?
Salinas River Valley
300
What causes Brother to rename Doodle?
Mercy.
300
Circe warns Odysseus not to allow his men to hear the songs of whom?
The Sirens.
300
This word means to cause wide spread harm or negative influence.
What is pestilential?
400
Who says the following lines and why?: O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st, A damned saint, an honourable villain!
Juliet says them about Romeo when she learns he has killed Tybalt; she means to say that Romeo is two-sided.
400
George and Lennie's goal of having land and a house is their version of the _________________; everyone's is slightly different but focuses on the same basic principles.
The American Dream
400
What is the name of the location that Brother eventually shares with Doodle?
Old Woman Swamp
400
Homer compared the writhing bodies of the suitors Odysseus killed in his hall to what?
The writhing of fish dumped from a net onto the shore.
400
This word means to be inconsistent and unpredictable.
What is erratic?
500
Who says: I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire: The day is hot, the Capulets abroad, And, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl; For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.
Benvolio
500
Whose gun did George steal at the end of the novella?
Carlson's.
500
What is the fallen Scarlet Ibis symbolic of?
Doodle and his weakness/"out of place-ness"
500
Who called upon Poseidon to avenge the wrongs Odysseus committed against him?
Polyphemus, the cyclops.
500
This word means to forgive and wipe the record clean.
What is absolve?