1. $2 $5 $10 $20 $1 $2 $5 $10 $20 $1 $2 $5 $10 $20 $1 $2 $5 $10 $20 $1 $2 $5 $10 $20 $1 Characters Wonders of The Wave Literary Techniques and Propaganda Plot Points Miscellaneous Madness

2. The Gordon Grapevine article, “Welcome to the Wave-Or Else” was written by this person

3. Anonymous Junior

4. After the rally, this character tried to make Mr. Ross feel better by saying that the students did learn something from The Wave

5. Laurie Saunders

6. This character thinks the only reason The Wave is so popular is because students are afraid to be against it

7. Christy Ross

8. This character refers to The Grapevine office as “Anne Frank’s attic”

9. Carl Block

10. This is Alex Cooper’s job at The Grapevine

11. Music Reviewer

12. Principal Owens gets agitated about The Wave when he learns it’s modeled after this

13. Hitler’s Nazi Germany

14. This character didn’t let Laurie into the football stands without giving the salute (even though he knew it was silly)

15. Brad

16. These were the mottos Mr. Ross taught his class (answer in the order they were given)

17. “Strength through Discipline; Strength through Community; Strength through Action”

18. This character said, “It was like, when we all acted together, we were more than just a class. We were a unit” (Strasser, 37).

19. David Collins

20. This question from this student is what caused Mr. Ross to begin The Wave in the first place

21. Amy Smith asked, “Why didn’t anyone try to stop them[Nazis]?” (Strasser, 12)

22. This is the literary technique most frequently used by Todd Strasser

23. Foreshadowing

24. This is how the movie Mr. Ross showed could be considered an example of foreshadowing

25. The movie was about the Nazis and concentration camps; The Wave followers ended up behaving like “little Nazis”

26. When Laurie tells her mom, “this is a molehill and you’re looking for a mountain”(74) she’s using this type of figurative language

27. Idiom

28. These are three propaganda techniques that members of The Wave used to try to get new people to join

29. Bandwagon, Testimonial, Visual propaganda (posters, flyers)

30. According to Laurie, this is the reason that The Wave (even with its propaganda) can never be successful

31. There will always be people who stand up to the pressure and still think for themselves

32. These are two past experiences that demonstrate how Mr. Ross becomes obsessed with his projects

33. When he learned to play bridge; when he was studying American Indians

34. This was the reason Ben thought all of the kids were “into” The Wave

35. They actually wanted the discipline and liked it

36. This event made some Wave members feel more important than others

37. Mr. Ross handed out yellow membership cards, and the ones with the ‘x’ on the back were for the students who were the ‘monitors’

38. This event made Norm Schiller change his mind about The Wave

39. Gordon High still lost their football game. Even though The Wave got them psyched, they still didn’t know the plays.

40. Brian bought an extra large lunch in order to gain weight so he won’t get pounded by this team’s linebackers?

41. Clarkstown

42. Ben Ross showed his class the movie so that they would do this.

43. Think about what they saw, what he said, and ask questions

44. This story is based on an actual event that occurred in _______ in the year ______

45. cucu Palo Alto, California in 1969

46. These are the ways that Laurie and Amy deal with stress

47. Laurie chews on her pens; Amy smokes

48. These are the 3 lessons Mr. Ross wanted the students to learn from this experiment

49. We’re all responsible for our actions; must always question and never blindly follow a leader; never let a group take your individual rights

50. “If history repeats itself, you will all want to deny what happened to you in The Wave” This quote means…

51. After WWII, many Germans denied even knowing about the concentration camps and the persecution of millions of people