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TEAM THREE
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The
Crucible
Title and
Author
Ethan Frome
Transce
ndentali
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MLA
Round 2
Format
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What is a synonym for the word
“name” in The Crucible?
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Reputation or Honor
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Draw a Venn diagram to compare
and contrast the Salem Witch
Trials with the McCarthy Trials.
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How does Giles Corey die?
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He is pressed to death between
two heavy rocks.
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Which commandment is Proctor
unable to remember? Why is it
ironic?
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Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
It’s ironic because that is the
commandment he has broken.
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Hale leaves Salem after Proctor’s
arrest but then he returns. Why?
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He feels guilty and hopes to get
Rebecca Nurse to confess so that
she will not be hanged.
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But this too is true; stories can
save us.
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The Things They Carried by Tim
O’Brien
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Do you know your
commandments, Elizabeth?
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller
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He’s spent too many winters in
Starkfield.
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Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
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I hurt therefore I am.
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Half-Hanged Mary by Margaret
Atwood
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Once someone is dead, you can’t
make them undead.
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The Things They Carried by Tim
O’Brien
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Why is Mattie living with the
Fromes?
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To help care for Zeena
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Why is the narrator of Ethan
Frome in Starkfield?
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Business
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How does the pickle dish break?
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The cat knocks it off the table.
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What does the pickle dish
represent?
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What’s ironic about the end of the
Ethan Frome?
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Mattie and Ethan must rely on
Zeena to care for them.
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What is a hobgoblin of small
minds?
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A foolish inconsistency
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Name two important
transcendentalists
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Thoreau and Emerson
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What are the four commonly held
beliefs of the transcendentalists?
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1. Self-reliance
2. Against organized religion and
politics
3. Non-conformity
4. The goodness of man and
nature
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What does it mean, “to be awake
is to be alive”.
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Name a present day movement
that has been influenced by
transcendental ideals and explain
the movement.
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What does Linda symbolize in
The Things They Carried?
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Innocence/The Past/Childhood
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Give THREE examples of
isolation in The Things They
Carried.
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What is the main theme in Spin?
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Perspective
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How is The Things They Carried
an example of meta-fiction?
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The author is also a fictional
character within the story,
characters in the story know they
are in a book and the author
writes about how to write within
the story.
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Discuss the motif of baptism
throughout the whole book.
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True or False
A Works Cited page should be
single spaced.
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False.
A Works Cited page should be
double spaced.
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Which title is correct?
A. Work Cited
B. Works cited
C. Works Cited
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C
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True or False
A Works Cited page does not
have to be alphabetized.
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False
A Works Cited page MUST be
alphabetized.
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True or False
The first line of each entry must
be indented.
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False
The first line must be flush with
the margin but each subsequent
line of an entry must be indented.
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True or False
If there is no author listed then
the first thing you must list in
your citation is the title.
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True
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Title
and
Author
Literary
Devices
Vocabulary
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Plot
Diagrams
More
TTTC
Round 1
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Final
Jeopardy
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TTTC
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…I detested their blind,
thoughtless, automatic
acquiescence to it all…
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The Things They Carried by Tim
O’Brien
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Death sits on my shoulder like a
crow.
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Half-Hanged Mary by Margaret
Atwood
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Why it is a lie, it is a lie; how may
I damn myself? I cannot, I cannot.
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller
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…their evening together had
given him a vision of what life at
her side might be…”
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Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
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If Sally had not been married, or if
his father were not such a
baseball fan, it would have been a
good time to talk.
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The Things They Carried by Tim
O’Brien
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Which literary device is used
here: “On occasions the war was
like a Ping-Pong ball. “
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Simile
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What literary device is being used
here: “Did those men at
Pentecost want flames to shoot
out of their heads?”
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Allusion
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The field that Kiowa dies in is a
metaphor for what?
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The War
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What motif is associated with
death in The Things They
Carried?
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Light
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Give an example of irony from
The Things They Carried.
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Define FOIL
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A character that illuminates the
positive qualities of the
protagonist.
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Define DEFT
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Skilled
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Define PLOT
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The events in a story.
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Define Skittish
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nervous
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Define HUMP as used in The
Things They Carried
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To carry
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What was the main ghost in
Vietnam?
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The enemy
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How did Rat Kiley get out of
active duty in Vietnam?
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He shot himself in the foot.
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Why was Kiowa against setting
up a fortress in the Pagoda? Give
the exact reason as Kiowa stated
it.
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“You don’t mess with churches.”
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What agreement do Jensen and
Strunk make?
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One will kill the other if they
become injured in battle.
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What does Tim O’Brien learn
about story-telling from his
experience with Linda? How does
this knowledge prepare him for
both war and becoming a writer?
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What is the inciting incident in
The Crucible?
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What is the climax in The
Crucible?
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Draw a plot diagram for Speaking
of Courage from The Things They
Carried.
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What is the inciting incident in
Ethan Frome?
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What is the resolution of The
Crucible?
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Who carries moccasins?
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Kiowa
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Why does Ted Lavender take
tranquilizers?
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He’s scared. They calm him.
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When the platoon burns a village
and they find a young girl
dancing who mocks her?
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Azar
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What is the name of fictional Tim
O’Brien’s daughter?
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Kathleen
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Tim takes Kathleen to Vietnam
what does he do there and why?
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Returns to the field, wades into
the Song Tra Bong and leaves
Kiowa’s moccasins. He does this
to honor Kiowa, wash away his
guilt and resolve his time in
Vietnam.
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Taboo
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Final
Jeopardy
Question
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Choose an envelope and follow
the directions.
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