What is anaphora?

AQWF
• What is the main reason why the boys enlisted in the army?
• Kantorek made it seem like it was their duty…

Cyrano
• How does Cyrano show respect for art?

TFA
• What is the name of the author? Spelling Counts
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Antigone
• What did Sophocles use to add suspense and intrigue?

What is a memoir?

Cyrano
• Cyrano is most sensitive about his…

Oedipus
• Where does the play take place?

TFA
• __________ is the king of the crops.

Night
• What did Moshe the Beadle tell the people on his return from being deported?

Cyrano
• How are Cyrano and Christian character foils?

What is an allusion?

Antigone
• Why is Antigone forbidden to bury her brother,
Polynices?

TFA
• How did Okonkwo violate the week of peace?

Oedipus
• Why does the priest request a meeting with
Oedipus?

AQWF
• What game do the men play throughout the novel?

What is situational irony?

Cyrano
• Where is the setting of the play (country)?

TFA
• What is the name of the village where Okonkwo lives before he is exiled?

Antigone
• Why does Ismene refuse to help Antigone bury
Polynices?

Night
• What was the setting for the first section of the book?

Cyrano
• Who does Cyrano give his first letter to and why?

Night
• Who is the character who has “bouts of anger”?

TFA
• What is Okonkwo’s tragic flaw?

Oedipus
• Why did Thebes originally ignore King Laius’ murder?

Antigone
• Who is Haemon?

Cyrano
• How does Roxane trick De Guiche?

Who is the author of Night?

TFA
• Who is one character foil for Okonkwo?

AQWF
• In Kantorek’s letter to Paul and his friends, he describes them as the “______ Youth.”

Night
• What did the Jews in the train car discover when they looked out the window?

AQWF
• What event causes Detering to become outraged?

TFA
• Why is Okonkwo exiled?

Cyrano
• What does Cyrano do in order to stall De
Guiche?

Who is the author of AQWF?

Oedipus
• Who are the members of the old royal family?

Antigone
• The entombed Antigone is often compared to a
…

TFA
• What is an “iron horse”?

Night
• What are examples of dehumanization in the novel?

Who wrote Cyrano de Bergerac?

Cyrano
• Both Roxane and Cyrano believe that a soul expresses itself best through…

AQWF
• Kropp believes that war should be fought by

TFA
• What is the name of Okonkwo’s motherland?

Oedipus
• Who are members of the new royal family?

Cyrano
• Who is the pastry chef?

Antigone
• Why does Antigone defy Creon’s edict?

TFA
• What character dies of an unclean disease?

Night
• What did Franek want from Elie?

Cyrano
• How many times does Cyrano cross Spanish lines to send Roxane letters?

Oedipus
• What archetypal role does Teiresisas fit?

TFA
• What are often left in the evil forest to die?

AQWF
• Kantorek’s situation becomse ironic because…

Antigone
• What happens to Creon’s wife?

Cyrano
• What is the play based on?

Night
• How did Elie say the soup tasted the night the
pipel was hanged?

TFA
• What kind of crime did Okonkwo commit?
• This is the reason why he is exiled…

Oedipus
• How does Creon argue his innocence?

Antigone
• Who does Antigone blame her fate on?

Cyrano
• What object symbolizes Cyrano’s life?

AQWF
• why does Paul feel he must dress the
Frenchman’s wounds?

TFA
• What is the name of the missionary who is aggressive and forceful?

Night
• What was Elie’s inheritance from his father?

Oedipus
• Where was Laius killed?

Cyrano
• What do Roxane and Ragueneau bring the cadets?

Antigone
• What is the messenger’s central function within the play?

TFA
• Chielo calls this character “my daughter”

Oedipus
• Draw Oedipus’ new family tree

AQWF
• According to Paul, what is the only decent result of war?

Cyrano
• What major conflict still remains even after the war is over?

Antigone
• Who persuades Creon to release Antigone from her tomb?

TFA
Who is the “sad-faced” youth?

Oedipus
• Who is the Greek god of the theater?

Night
• What did Elie realize about Rabbi Eliahou’s son just after the evacuation?

Cyrano
• How does Cyrano die?

Oedipus
• What three things were masks used for?

TFA
• _________ is the strongest male convert to the
Christian faith

Antigone
• Who tells Creon that Polynices’ has been buried?

Oedipus
• What is the name of Oedipus’ adoptive mother and father? Spelling counts…

Cyrano
• Where does Roxane go after the war is over?

AQWF
• By the end of the novel, Paul’s senses become deadened to

TFA
• What is Okonkwo’s nickname?

Night
• What happened to Elie’s father?

Cyrano
• What other play has significant parallel scenes?

Oedipus
• Why did Oedipus originally go to Thebes?

Night
• How many of Elie’s family members survived the
Holocaust?

AQWF
• Paul believes that his generation knows

TFA
• Who is called “Crystal of Beauty”

Oedipus
• Apollo is the Greek god of the __________.

Cyrano
• Who gives a warning that Cyrano may accidentally die?

Oedipus
• According to Aristotle, what is the purpose of tragedy? One word…

Night
• Who saw visions of fire?

TFA
• What are children called who are reborn over and over? Described as evil children…

Cyrano
• What is the name of the man to whom De
Guiche wishes Roxane to marry?

Oedipus
• How many plays did Sophocles write?

Night
• What number was Elie given at the concentration camps?
• A-7713

TFA
• At the end of the novel, how does Okonkwo feel that the people of Umofia had become?
• One word…

Oedipus
• What is the Greek word for tragic flaw?

Cyrano
• What does Cyrano retrieve from behind enemy lines?

Bonus
• Night
• How many men started out in Elie’s train car?
How many were left when they arrived at
Buchenwald?
• 100 started out; about 12 were left

Bonus
• Night
• When did the first American troops arrive at camp?
• 6:00 p.m., April 10, 1945

Bonus
• Cyrano
• What is another name for “sword”?

Bonus
• Oedipus
• What is the Greek word for tragic pride?

Bonus
• TFA
• What is the name of the character who killed and ate the Sacred Python?

Bonus:
• AQWF
• After being on the front, Paul decides that the soldiers’ lives are ruled by…

Bonus
• Cyrano
• What makes Roxane realize that she has been in love with Cyrano, not Christian?

Bonus
• In what two works of literature do we encounter the Sphinx?
• Oedipus Rex or The Theban Plays
• “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats

Bonus
• TFA
• What bit of land did the missionaries receive?