Characters
All About Morrie
All About Mitch
This and That
Quotes
100
Main character; dying of ALS; a teacher to the last
Who is Morrie Schwartz?
100
The disease Morrie suffers from
What is ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease?
100
Mitch's profession when he finds out Morrie is dying.
What is a sports writer?
100
Although there are many philosophical topics discussed throughout the book, we see one theme more frequently than others. It is important to Morrie and affects all his relationships. Think of his beliefs on family and his favorite quote. That theme is...
What is love?
100
Complete the Aphorism: When you learn how to die, you learn how to ________
What is live?
200
Main character; a sports writer; wrote the book; lost touch with Morrie after college
Who is Mitch Albom?
200
Morrie is a professor of ______________ at what college?
What is sociology at Brandeis?
200
The reason Mitch is out of a job when he returns from Wimbledon.
What is a strike at the newspaper where he worked?
200
Morrie says that we need to fully immerse ourselves in our feelings and fears and then do what?
What is detach from emotions?
200
Complete the Aphorism: Love each other or ___________.
What is perish?
300
Morrie's wife; informs Mitch Morrie can't eat any of the food he's been bringing
Who is Charlotte?
300
What Morrie would be reincarnated as and why.
What is a gazelle? Because they are graceful and fast, which is important to someone who has lost the use of their legs.
300
What Mitch wanted to do for a living.
What is be a musician? (Piano player)
300
As Morrie's body deteriorates, he refuses to stay in bed, asking to be brought to his chair. What does his bed represent to him? (Hint: Think of one of his aphorisms...)
What is death? (When you're in bed, you're dead.)
300
Identify the speaker and the significance of the following quote: "I did what I had become best at doing: I tended to my work, even while my dying professor waited on his front lawn. I am not proud of this, but that is what I did."
Who is Mitch? Significance: Show what Mitch's life and priorities were like when he first got back in touch with Morrie. Shows how much he had changed since college and would change from now on.
400
Host of "Nightline;" Morrie interviews him before allowing him to film the show
Who is Ted Koppel?
400
Morrie ended a protest in which students took over a building on campus by doing this...
What is went into the building, talked to students, and brought a list of their demands to the dean?
400
The gift Mitch brought to Morrie every Tuesday.
What is food?
400
What represents Morrie, deteriorating as he does? (Hint: It is on his window sill and mentioned frequently throughout the book.)
What is the pink hibiscus plant?
400
Complete the Aphorism: When you're in bed, you're _______.
What is dead?
500
Mitch's brother; lives in Spain; suffers from pancreatic cancer
Who is Peter Albom?
500
To keep any of his male students from being drafted in the Vietnam War, Morrie did this...
What is gave them all A's?
500
Mitch's two overwhelming desires the whole time he knew Morrie.
What is to hug him and to give him a napkin?
500
Morrie tells the story of the waves crashing into the shore and how they are not simply waves, but a part of these ocean. How is this symbolic of Morrie himself?
What is he is a part of humanity and knows that when he dies (or crashes into the shore) he will return the the afterlife (the ocean), not disappear.