1. The Body Jeopardy
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3. Key Events-100
ANSWER: This is how the boys know where the dead body is.
QUESTION: What is Vern overhears his brother talking about it as he searches for his pennies?

4. Key Events-200 ANSWER: Teddy’s handicap
QUESTION: What is poor eyesight and deformed ears?

5. Key Events -300
ANSWER: This is how Vern and Teddy feel about Gordie’s story.
QUESTION: What is they complain about the ending?

6. Key Events-400
ANSWER: This character says, “Your friends drag you down.”
QUESTION: Who is Chris?

7. Key Events-500
ANSWER: The name of the character/book Gordie feels like he is in his house.
QUESTION: Who is The Invisible Man?

8. Key Events 2-100 ANSWER: The reason why Vern is under the porch.
QUESTION: What is because he is looking for his pennies?

9. Key Events 2-200
ANSWER: This is the character that understands Gordie best.
QUESTION: Who is Chris?

10. Key Events 2-300
ANSWER: This is what happens when Chris returns the milk money.
QUESTION: What is his Old Lady Simons keeps it for herself and buys a new skirt?

11. Key Events 2-400
ANSWER: This is what Gordon considers the “most important moment” of the trip for him. QUESTION: What is seeing the deer?

12. Key Events 2-500
ANSWER: The name of the town in France where Gordon sets his WWII stories.
QUESTION: What is Le Dio?

13. Quotes-100
ANSWER: This person says, “The most important things are the hardest things to say.”
QUESTION: Who is Gordon?

14. Quotes -200
ANSWER: He says, “Don’t you say nothing else about my dad! My dad stormed the beach at Normandy…!”
QUESTION: Who is Teddy?

15. Quotes -300
ANSWER: This person says, “A goocher, that’s really bad…I don’t like that. Sincerely.”
QUESTION: Who is Vern?

16. Quotes -400
ANSWER:“I wish to I was your father! You wouldn’t go around talkin’ about those stupid shop courses if I was!”
QUESTION: Who is Chris?

17. Quotes -500
ANSWER: “He always slept with his window open and the blankets… Did you say something?”
QUESTION: Who is Mrs. LaChance?

18. Literary Elements-100 ANSWER: The boys want to find the dead body.
QUESTION: What is motivation?

19. Literary Elements-200 ANSWER: The young boys vs. the older boys
QUESTION: What is conflict?

20. Literary Elements-300
ANSWER: Gordon tells the story as an adult looking back on the summer of 1960.
QUESTION: What is flashback?

21. Literary Elements-400
ANSWER: “The kid was can’t, don’t, won’t, never, shouldn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t. He was the side of the battery where the terminal says NEG.”
QUESTION: What is metaphor?

22. Literary Elements-500
ANSWER: When the boys flip coins, Vern, Teddy, and Chris get tails and they all die young.
QUESTION: What is foreshadowing?

23. Potpourri -100
ANSWER: This character’s father is a drunk and frequently beats him.
QUESTION: Who is Chris?

24. Potpourri -200 ANSWER: The reason that Teddy likes to dodge trains.
QUESTION: What is because he wants to be brave like his father was in WWII?

25. Potpourri -300 ANSWER: This is who reports the dead body to the police
QUESTION: Who is Ace Merrill via an anonymous call?

26. Potpourri -400 ANSWER: This is how Chris dies.
QUESTION: What is trying to break up a fight in a fast food restaurant and gets stabbed?

27. Potpourri -500 ANSWER: Who beats up Gordie?
QUESTION: Who is Ace Merrill and Fuzzy Bracowicz?

28. FINAL JEOPARDY
ANSWER: Provide three examples of how the boys’ experience was a rite of passage.
QUESTION:
Seeing a dead body for the first time.
Holding a gun
Dangerous situations- (train trestle, leeches, facing Milo and Chopper)
Standing up to the big boys
Staying in the woods alone overnight
Seeing the deer at dawn for Gordon
Gordon sharing his stories for the first time