Orphans in Literature
Who wrote Silas Marner?
George Eliot
What country is Saroo originally from in the movie Lion?
India
How did we define an orphan for the course?
It could be any child who lost one or both parents -- either because they passed or abandoned them
What is the name of BU's mascot?
How does Julia Fletcher Carney's story "The Stolen Flowers" (also called "The Poetry of Poverty") end?
Florentine is proposed to by her pseudo-adopted brother, but it does not say whether she accepts or declines
In Anne with an E, why was Marilla disappointed when Anne was dropped off at her home?
She wanted to adopt a boy to help with labor on the farm
Name three orphan narratives that we did not read or watch in class (cannot be the exhibit texts from any of your papers)
Answers Vary
Name three professional Boston (or New England) sports teams
Red Sox, Patriots, Bruins, Celtics
Why did Dickens criticize the orphan asylum at Tooting?
The asylum had poor living conditions which allowed the spread of a fatal disease (cholera).
Who first taught Beth how to play chess in The Queen's Gambit?
Name two tropes that we saw come up in the orphan narratives we read for class
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What 1997 Boston-based movie did Matt Damon and Ben Affleck write and star in?
Good Will Hunting
In Harriet Jacobs' passage about mothers who are enslaved, she references one holiday, discussing how white and black mothers experience this day differently. What is that holiday?
New Year's Day
In what film does a president (an actor playing the president) make an appearance?
Annie (FDR)
How did adoption differ for minority groups (as opposed to white children) living in the United States in the nineteenth century?
Black children were not allowed in most orphan asylums and were very rarely adopted into white families. Native American children were much more frequently adopted, but were often treated poorly. They were also increasingly placed in boarding schools to assimilate to American culture.
Egg whites and sugar
What is the title of the periodical edited and published by the Fellows sister in the mid-nineteenth century?
The Orphans' Advocate and Social Monitor
When we watched an old, short Disney clip in class, an animal adopts another orphaned animal. What is the animal?
Cat
In what decade was adopted first legally sanctioned in the United States?
1850s (The Adoption Act of 1851)
What singer-songwriter won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry?
Hint: Performed hit songs "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Blowin in the Wind"
Bob Dylan