Details
Struggles
Plot
Symbols/Themes
Potpourri
100

The author of the book.

What is Ernest Hemingway?

100

What happens to the old man's left hand?

What is a cramp?

100

At the beginning of the book, how long has it been since Santiago caught a fish?

What is 84 days?

100

What do Santiago's dreams of lions represent?

What is youth, power, or strength?

100

The Old Man begins fishing in this body of water.

What is the Caribbean Sea?

200

The name of the old man.

What is Santiago?

200

On what day does he spear the Marlin?

What is the third day?

200

Why doesn't Manolin fish with the old man anymore?

What is the boy's parents say the old man is bad luck?

200

List two ways that suffering is seen throughout the story.

What is the old man lacks food, water, sleep, and is in pain?

200

The Old Man is on this kind of small boat.

What is a skiff?

300

The setting of the book.

What is Cuba?

300

How does the old man get the fish home?

What is attaching it to the side of the skiff?

300

List 2 ways that Hemingway describes Santiago's eyes.

What is color of the sea, cheerful, and undefeated?

300

Joe DiMaggio represents this throughout the novel.

What is Hemingway Code Hero?

300

The meaning of the word "salao"?

What is "the worst form of lucky?"

400

What award did Hemingway win?

What is Pulitzer Prize?

400

What type of shark attacks them first?

What is a Mako shark?

400

Why does the thought of selling the fish's meat disappoint the old man?

What is the people who will eat the meat are not worthy of it?

400

People call the sea either la mer or el mar. What is the difference and what does it mean to them?

La mar is what people call the sea when they love her; El mar is masculine and used when they see her as a contestant or a place or an enemy

400

The Old Man eats these three kinds of fish while out to sea.

What are albacore (tuna), flying fish, and dolphin (mahi mahi)?

500

The famous theory that Hemingway created.

What is Iceberg Theory?

500

What did the old man use as a weapon to fend off the sharks?

What is a knife attached to the end of an oar?

500

Santiago wishes this repeatedly during his struggle with the marlin.

What is that the boy (Manolin) was with him?

500

List 3 comparisons between Santiago and Christ.

What is his name, 40 days, wounds to his hands/head, his fall as he carries the cross, carrying the cross, a leader and mentor for others?

500

The owner of "The Terrace."

What is "Martin?"