I know my theory, I know Pratt
Explain to your family members what a contact zone is.
A contact zone is a social space where disparate cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often under highly unequal relations of power.
He lives at this nouveau riche area on Long Island.
What is West Egg?
The author of the Crucible is again who?
Who is Arthur Miller.
This is how many students live in Alamo and Appleby combined.
What is 64.
29 in Alamo and 35 in Appleby.
This is how many boarding students we have at Webb.
What is 261?
Explain to your family members what Pratt means by transculturation.
Transculturation is the process where subordinated or marginal groups select and invent from materials transmitted by a dominant or metropolitan culture.
Who is Thomas Parke D'Invilliers?
Fitzgerald occasionally uses this name as his pen name, which is also the name credited to the epigraph at the start of the novel.
John Proctor is guilty of what?
He had an affair with Abigail Williams. He broke the seventh commandment ("You shall not commit adultery." (Exodus 20:14)
This is how many students live in Jones and Holt combined.
What is 54.
25 in Holt and 29 in Jones.
This is the approx. number of Webb alumni around the world. (your answer needs to be in the neighborhood of 500 plus/minus the actual number)
What is 4600.
What is the title of Pratt's scholarly work we read excerpts of?
Mary Louise Pratt. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, 1992.
This chapter is the longest chapter of the novel.
What is chapter seven.
What is The Crucible an allegory for?
It's an allegory for McCarthyism and the Red Scare of the 1950s in the United States.
This is how many students live in South Hutch and North Hutch combined.
What is 60.
30 in South Hutch and 30 in North Hutch.
Thompson Webb was born 98 years after the French Revolution
What is 1887?
What is again the name of the explorer and scientist Pratt discusses in chapter six.
Who is Alexander von Humboldt.
Jordan Baker plays what sport?
She plays golf.
In the Army hearings in 1954, Joseph Welch said what famous line to Joe McCarthy that ultimately led to his downfall?
"Have you np sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" (Joseph Welsh)
This is how many students live in Reynolds and Jameson combined.
What is 43.
13 in Reynolds and 30 in Jameson
Student Bill Webb ('39), son of our school founder, found a peccary skull on a trip with Ray Alf this year.
What is 1936?
Alexander von Humboldt and Aime Bonpland went on their first long travel from when to when?
from 1799 to 1804.
"Pammy" is only mentioned once in the novel by name.
Who is she?
Pammy is Tom and Daisy's daughter
Trivia: Who was Arthur Miller married to from 1956 to 1961?
He was married to Marylin Monroe.
This is how many day students we have at Webb.
What is 261.
This is how big the property of Webb campus is (in acres, plus/minus 50 acres)
What is 150 acres?