NBTT Jeopardy
The Plot
Literary
Elements
Characters
The
Truth
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Final Jeopardy
$100 Question
The conflict that sets the plot of NBTT in
motion is between which two characters?
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Who are Phillip Malloy and Miss Narwin?
$200 Question
Most students think that Miss Narwin is
what type of teacher?
$200 Answer
What is fair and a good teacher?
$300 Question
In the beginning of the novel, Miss
Narwin has an internal conflict over
this.
$300 Answer
What is if her teaching
is up to date with
modern students?
$400 Question
The coach doesn’t want Philip to try
out for the track team because…
$400 Answer
What is Philip does not have
good enough grades to run
track?
$500 Question
How does Ted Griffen use the conflict
between Philip and Miss Narwin to his
advantage?
$500 Answer
What is he turns Philip’s story into
one of patriotism and then says
that he supports patriotism in
order to get elected on the school
board?
$100 Question
What type of novel is NBTT?
$100 Answer
What is a documentary novel?
$200 Question
Characters in a novel are…
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What is the people or animals in a
story?
$300 Question
What is a theme in literature?
$300 Answer
What is what insight the author
gives about humanity?
$400 Question
This is how Avi reveals his characters
in NBTT.
$400 Answer
What is through quotes,
showing how they act,
and telling how others
respond to them?
$500 Question
Irony is a contrast between expectation and
reality. What three things are ironic at the
end of the novel?
$500 Answer
What is 1) Philip has little
support from his classmates 2)
Ends up at a school without a
track team and 3) doesn’t know
the words to the National
Anthem?
$100 Question
What does Mr. Malloy want for Philip?
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What is to get on the track
team and stand up for
himself?
$200 Question
What is Ted Griffen’s role in the novel?
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What is a politician
running for the school
board who uses the
main conflict to his
advantage?
$300 Question
Why is Allison Dorsett important
to the plot?
$300 Answer
What is she shows how the
kids really feel about Philip
and Miss Narwin?
$400 Question
Who is Mr. Lunser?
$400 Answer
Who is Philip Malloy’s original
homeroom teacher who goofs
around a lot?
$500 Question
What kind of person is Dr. Palleni?
$500 Answer
What is a person who
just wants to sweep
issues under the rug?
$100 Question
Philip was suspended for…
$100 Answer
What is humming
the national
anthem?
$200 Question
Philip was in this grade when
his conflict with Miss Narwin
happened.
$200 Answer
What is 9th grade?
$300 Question
Who suspended Philip?
$300 Answer
Who is Dr. Palleni?
$400 Question
True or false: Everyone hates Miss
Narwin.
$400 Answer
What is False?
$500 Question
Why was Philip really
suspended from school?
$500 Answer
What is he was sent to the
office twice for disrupting
class and the school policy
is to suspend a student
sent to the office twice in
one week.
$100 Question
This word means existing or
occurring at the same time.
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What is contemporary?
$200 Question
This is to see something in advance.
$200 Answer
What is foresee ?
$300 Question
This is tending to provoke.
$300 Answer
What is provacative?
$400 Question
This is the part of speech of
animosity.
$400 Answer
What is a noun?
$500 Question
This is the language of origin of
vigilant.
$500 Answer
What is Latin?
Final Jeopardy
How is the story’s ending ironic?
Final Jeopardy
Answer
Because irony is when
something happens
differently than
expected. Everyone
expected Philip to know
the national anthem and
he didn’t.