The Metamorphosis
MonsterQuest
Alien
Vocabulary
Grab Bag
100
This guy's favorite foods include rotten meat, moldy cheese, spoiled dairy, and anything from the trash.
Who is Gregor?
100
This monster's name translates to "goat sucker."
What is the chupacabra?
100
This character, played by Sigourney Weaver, was the only human survivor of the Nostromo.
Who is Ripley?
100
When a monster is so big you can't run, move, or even scream, it is this type of monster.
What is sublime?
100
This teacher FINALLY had a team win the vocabulary battle for the first time!
Who is Ms. Spiceland?
200
This person was Gregor's caretaker at the beginning of the book.
Who is Grete?
200
One of the bigfoot expiditions used all women because the woman had higher-pitched these.
What are voices?
200
Ripley goes back to save this feline, inadvertantly saving her own life.
Who is Jones?
200
A change from one state to another, or from one form to another, is called this.
What is a metamorphosis?
200
This was Gregor's occupation
What is a traveling salesman?
300
When Gregor's father got mad at him for leaving the room, he pelted Gregor with these.
What are apples?
300
These are present on the skin of all primates, and are the reason we have unique fingerprints. If they are present in the bigfoot footprints, then we know that bigfoot is a giant primate.
What are dermal ridges?
300
Ash turns out to be one of these, which explains why he does not value the human lives aboard the Nostromo.
What is an andriod or robot?
300
Named for this author, "kafkaesque" refers to a surreal or nightmarish mood.
Who is Franz Kafka?
300
Gregor worked at his awful job because his parents had a lot of this, not because he liked it.
What is debt?
400
When Gregor woke up as a giant bug, his main concern was this.
What is getting to work on time?
400
Most of the bigfoot sightings have taken place in this region of the United States.
What is the Pacific Northwest? (Washington state, Oregon, and Northern California)
400
Because we never see the alien until the very end of the movie, we can consider it this type of monster.
What is unknown?
400
This can refer to something unnatural, grotesque, evil, or inhuman; or, it can refer to something outside of the realm of natural possibility, without necessarily being evil or frightening.
What is a monster?
400
For the current essay, you need this many quotes.
What is six?
500
At the end of the story, the maid finds this in Gregor's room.
What is Gregor's dead body?
500
The famous video of bigfoot, given this name, is the best evidence of the monster to date.
What is the Patterson Footage?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!
Alien was originally released in this year.
500
This word refers to a small creature that infests; a pest.
What is vermin?
500
The alien in Alien had blood made of this substance, which made it even harder to kill.
What is acid?