Episode 1
Sarah Koenig first hooks or grabs the attention of the listener in the first few seconds by…
Statement of facts and explaining personal connection
Prosecutor Kevin Urick told the jury in his opening statement, “He became enraged. He felt betrayed that his honor had been besmirched, and he became very angry, and he set out to kill Hae Min Lee.”
Sarah Koenig later (in episode 10) claims that the prosecutor uses the word choice “besmirched” to…
Bring to mind connotations of a word from the old country where honor killings happened.
The cops find Hae’s body because…
Mr. S told them where to search for it because he found it by chance
The detectives are able to get a subpoena for Adnan’s cell phone records because…
They have sufficient evidence now that they have received a call from an anonymous male who tells them Adnan used to take Hae to Leakin Park and that a friend of Adnan would probably know something. The friend mentions something about dumping a car at a lake which is what the anonymous caller also said.
What challenge does Adnan pose to Koenig as his way of proving that it would be impossible for the murder to occur between 2:15 and 2:36?
A challenge to map out the route in real time by visiting the school and timing the drive to Best Buy
Sarah Koenig most vividly illustrates her point that it is very hard to account for your time in a detailed way by…
Having teenagers try it and then play a recording of their responses
What key primary source is valid in determining what Hae and Adnan’s relationship was like?
Hae’s diary
The mood that is created in the Leakin Park visit can best be described as
Ominous and somber
Which statement below is an opinion?
“Whoever made this call, he must be the key to the whole thing.”
What is Sarah Koenig’s main purpose in the following lines: “It does seem far fetched because there’s no room for any errors. Any pauses even. The buses, the drive, the strangulation. The moving of the body. The call. They all have to happen as quickly as they possibly can for the 2:36 call to work. But, it is possible. Or at least not impossible, which was what Adnan was saying in that first letter.”
to share with listeners her findings about the State’s timeline
Rabia Chaudry contacted Sarah Koenig to help out with the case because…
She knew Sarah Koenig had done an article on Adnan’s lawyer in the past
“Hae has got a crush on Don….Don has blue eyes and blonde hair and a Camero and she really, really likes him….At one point, she writes Adnan’s name in giant block letters made out of tiny little Adnans and underneath that does the same thing with Don. Giant letters made up of Dons. On another page, she writes Don’s name 127 times. 127 Dons.” What literary device does Sarah Koenig employ here?
imagery
Which words does Koenig use to set this mood? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY.
Sadly…its dead bodies
A macabre website dedicated to Baltimore murders lists…
On a freezing day we went…back into the woods
In Jenn’s statement, what motive did she supply the detectives?
Adnan said that Hae broke his heart
A better way to “attack Jay’s credibility” would have been to
Show logical evidence that there wasn’t a pay phone at Best Buy by posting a picture of the parking lot
From the passage above, what literary device as a part of author’s craft does Sarah Koenig use?
Allusion
What Adnan and Hae have in common that Adnan cites as having the most appeal about being in a relationship with each other is…
They both had strict immigrant parents
How does Sarah Koenig’s treatment of the subject contribute to the tone?
Her use of rhetorical questions creates a skeptical tone
Jenn incriminates herself by confessing that…
She knew about the murder from Jay and helped Jay get rid of some evidence
Even though the cell phone records don’t plot out to match the timeline of Jay’s story, which is the main part of the call records that looks very incriminating for Adnan?
Adnan’s cellphone pings at Leakin Park
From the passage above, what is she trying to get at by saying, “not a Moor exactly, but a Muslim all the same…?”
That Moors from Shakespeare’s time are often villainized as sometimes Muslims are today
If you wanted to prove that Adnan was unhealthily obsessed over Hae, which testimony would be the strongest evidence to use in your case?
A quote from Aisha saying, “just the constant paging her if she was out, um, and he’s like, “Well I just wanted to know where you were.” And it’s like, “I told you where I was gonna be.”
The reason Koenig doesn’t want to give Mr. S’s name is because…
He is a streaker