ALL ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The author of the book is...
Ernest Hemingway.
Who is Santiago's favorite baseball player...
Joe DiMaggio
Manolin started dishing with Santiago when...
he was five-years-old.
Santiago uses a _____ to catch his fish using a...
a) canoe
b) skiff
c) yacht
d)kayak
b) skiff
The tourists mistake the marlin's skeleton for a...
shark.
What prizes did the author win?
The Pulitzer in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in 1954.
How is Santiago the protagonist? Give two examples for why.
Three examples can be:
1) The story is based on him catching the fish
2) He goes through the most change physically (losing weight and being malnourished and not having as much tenacity as earlier in the book)
From the book, you can infer that Manolin's age is around...
twenty-years-old
Santiago and Manolin discuss..
a) local news
b)cricket
c) baseball
d) how Manolin is doing
c) baseball
The boy does not fish with the old man anymore because...
his parents told him not to. This was due to the fact that they thought he was unlucky. The old man could not catch any fish.
What year did the author pubish the book?
1952
Santiago wants the marlin to jump in the book because...
it will be easier for him to aim and stab the marlin with a harpoon.
Do Manolin seem to care whether Santiago catches anything while fishing at the end of the book? Why or why not?
No, Manolin does not care whether Santiago catches anything. All he wants to do is learn techniques and wants to keep Santiago safe.
The conflict of the book is mostly...
a) character vs. self
b) character vs. character
c) character vs. society
d) character vs. nature
d) character vs. nature because the sea brings him trouble. Santiago's environment does not provide food or water. And the marlin becomes a major battle that he faces when trying to catch it.
Describe the old man's home...
Santiago lives in a shack. He has a chair with a blanket on it. He only has a place on the dirt floor to cook with charcoal.
Where was the author born?
Oakpark, Illinois in 1899
The promise that Santiago makes if he catches the fish is...
to go on a pilgrimage to the Virgin of Cobre.
How did Manolin change throughout the book; what is he determined to do that he did not earlier in the book?
He is willing to disobey his parents just to go fishing with Santiago; Manolin basically wants to know everything that Santiago knows.
Santiago was at sea for...
a) ten days
b) one day
c) two weeks
d) three days
d) three days
How long was the marlin?
18 feet long
Give one significant thing that the author did...
He served in the Red Cross during WW1 as an ambulance driver.
Santiago dwells on the memory of playing "the hand game with the great negro from Cienfuegos" because...
it reminds him of the impediment that he is in with the marlin. During the hand game, the negro would not give up just like the marlin. Santiago ended up winning the game which is what he hopes to do with the marlin.
How does the quote, "There was no pot of yellow rice and fish and the boy knew this too." (p. 16) , relate to Manolin? How does it show significance to the kind of person he is?
Even though Manolin knows that there is no yellow rice snd beans, he still goes along with that fiction on a daily basis to keep Santiago contented. It shows that Manolin has so much care and concern for Santiago.
What is the setting of the book...
a) Cuba
b) Puerto Rico
c) Domican Republic
d) Brazil
a) Cuba
What year did the author die and where?
1961 in Ketchun, Idaho