Exit West
Hamlet
Poetry
ARWAV
What It Means
100

He is the author of Exit West.

Who is Mohsin Hamid?

100

This man is Hamlet's loyal friend.

Who is Horatio?

100

Name the rhetorical device: Something happening that is very different to what was expected.

What is situational irony?

100

This is the name of the hotel where Charlotte and Lucy stay in Florence.

What is the Pensione Bertolini?

100

She is the author of What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky

Who is Lesley Nneka Arimah?

200

This character is the main protagonist who loses their parents and grows closer to their religion.

Who is Saeed?

200

This part of King Hamlet's body was poisoned by Claudius.

What is the ear?

200

T. S. Eliot repeatedly references this Italian artist in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".

Who is Michelangelo?

200

These items get covered in blood and thrown in the river Arno by George Emerson, much to Lucy's annoyance.

What are postcards?

200

These cousins are the two main characters in "Wild".

Who are Chenyere and Ada?

300

This part of the novel is set in a woman's bedroom in Sydney, Australia.

What is the first vignette?

300

The name of the play that Hamlet commissions the players to perform.

What is the "Mousetrap" play? (Also: "The Murder of Gonzago?")

300

This poet wrote the metaphysical poem that begins, "Busy old fool, unruly sun, / Why dost thou thus / Through windows, and through curtains call on us?"

Who is John Donne?

300

These flowers are described as running down the hillside "in rivulets and streams and catacrats" when George first kisses Lucy.

What are violets?

300

This is the title of the story about a girl who is forced to hurt herself by her mother for insurance payouts.

What is "Windfall"?

400

We encounter these two minor characters meeting up between Amsterdam and Rio de Janeiro. 

Who are the old, male lovers?

400

This is the name of Hamlet's castle.

What is Elsinore?

400

Name the poetic device: The repetition of the same word or groups of words at the ends of phrases, clauses, or sentences.

What is epistrophe?

400

This is the church that Lucy goes to without her Baedeker and encounters the Emersons.

What is Santa Croce?

400

This is what Mayowa gets in trouble for in "Redemption".

What is stealing the church earnings?

500

This motif is often described in a bird-like manner.

What is technology?

500

We first meet these two minor characters on the battlements where they first saw King Hamlet's ghost.

Who are Bernardo and Francisco?

500

Identify the rhyme scheme of this passage:

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"

What is free verse? (Trick Question!)

500

This is the name Miss Lavish uses to publish her book.

Who is Joseph Emery Prank?

500

This is what happens to Buchi's husband before the events of "Buchi's Girls."

What is he gets hit by a lorry?