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Question 1

Slumdog has three plot lines: the police interrogation, the game show, and Jamal’s life. Two of theses plot lines are revealed by flashback. Which plot line is not told using flashback?

Answer 1

The police interrogation

Question 2

The prophets hair: describe the part of srinagar where sheikh sin lives

Answer 2

Sheikh sin lives in a gully as dark as ink in a poor alleyway

Question 3

Describe the house owned by hashim

Answer 3

Hashim’s home was spacious lake side in the wealthy area

Question 4

What does huma want from sheikh sin

Answer 4

Huma wants sheikh sin to steal the prophets hair

Question 5

Shikara

Answer 5

A house boat

Question 6

Huma

Answer 6

Beautiful,wealthy,confident,defiant,strong

Question 7

Atta

Answer 7

Young,man,dumb,rich

Question 8

Sheikh sin

Answer 8

Immoral,gambler,smart,sick,dark

Question 9

Sheikh sins wife

Answer 9

Blind in the beginning

Question 10

Hashim

Answer 10

Wealthy,rude,harsh

Question 11

Hashim’s wife

Answer 11

Meal,mild

Question 12

What is the relic? Why is it so valuable?

Answer 12

It is the hair of the prophet Muhammad and it is a treasure and he wanted it because he is a collector

Question 13

What moment in your opinion is the climax of the story?

Answer 13

When atta said “thief,thief,thief”

Question 14

What happens to sheikh sins sons and wife

Answer 14

They are healed

Question 15

What happens to Hashim’s family?

Answer 15

All die but the mother and she goes insane

Question 16

Which character could be called a religious fundamentalist

Answer 16

The father

Question 17

Flashback

Answer 17

The scene in a movie,novel set in a time earlier than the main story

Question 18

In media res

Answer 18

Latin term that means “in the midst of thing” does not start at beginning

Question 19

Theme

Answer 19

The subject of the talk, a piece of writing a persons thoughts or an exhibition

Question 20

Foreshadow

Answer 20

A warning or indication of a future event

Question 21

Conflict

Answer 21

Involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and antagonist

Question 22

Climax

Answer 22

The moment of highest tension. A story is typically driving towards this moment

Question 23

Denouement

Answer 23

Outcome or conclusion. It is sometimes called the resolution. Denouement means the unraveling of the knot

Question 24

Symbol

Answer 24

A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract

Question 25

Suspense

Answer 25

A pleasurable anxiety we feel that heightens our attention

Question 26

Motif

Answer 26

Recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story

Question 27

Allusion

Answer 27

An implied or indirect reference to a person,event or thing to a part of another text

Question 28

Antagonist

Answer 28

A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something

Question 29

Protagonist

Answer 29

The leading character or one of the major characters.

Question 30

Epiphany

Answer 30

The point in a work of literature where a character has a sudden insight or realization that changes his or her understanding.

Question 31

Exposition is what?

Answer 31

Opening of the story

Question 32

How is the theme of money and wealth introduced?

Answer 32

Salim throwing money in the bathtub

Question 33

What is the first clue that the setting of the story of India?

Answer 33

When the host introduces introduces Jamal as being from Mumbai

Question 34

How is the theme of Fate introduced ?

Answer 34

In the beginning, When one of choices for a question is d. It is written

Question 35

What is the opening crisis

Answer 35

Jamal is being tortured

Question 36

Foreshadowing is what?

Answer 36

A hint regarding what might come next

Question 37

How does the money function as foreshadowing?

Answer 37

When your life is centered around money, it leads to unhappiness and sometimes death.

Question 38

Media res means?

Answer 38

"In midst of a thing" a story that begins in media res does not begin at the beginning.

Question 39

Slum Dog starts in the middle of what?

Answer 39

Interrogation

Question 40

Who are three antagonists (bad guys) in Slumdog?

Answer 40

Jared, gameshow host, Salim

Question 41

The climax is what?

Answer 41

The moment of highest tension, story drives toward this moment

Question 42

What is the climax of Slumdog?

Answer 42

When Latika answers the phone, he wins, and Salim dies simultaneously

Question 43

The denouement is what?

Answer 43

Outcome or conclusion "unraveling of the knot" (French)

Question 44

Denouement in Slumdog?

Answer 44

When Jamal gets Latika and Javed dies

Question 45

Suspense is what ?

Answer 45

Pleasure able anxiety we feel that heightens pur attention.

Question 46

One scene you felt suspense?

Answer 46

When Jamal had to answer the 20 million dollar question

Question 47

Mark of the beast

Answer 47

Three Englishmen (Strickland, fleece, and Richard Kipling) are out drinking on New Year's Eve, as they are walking they come to a Hindu temple with a statue of HANUMAN (the monkey god). FLEETE one of the drunker men put out his cigar on the statue and began to deface it. SILVERMAN, a leaper priest bites FLEETE. The Englishman go home where the horses are afraid of Fleete, who is acting very strange, the BITE changed colors, he eats RAW pork, and HOWLS (RABIES) The other men kidnap SILVERMAN and force him to reverse the spell. FLEETE returns to normal.

Question 48

Epiphany is what?

Answer 48

Popular theme in short stories | Time of: insight, discovery, revelation

Question 49

What epiphany does Salim have at the end of the story?

Answer 49

Money is nothing. "God is great"

Question 50

Motif is what?

Answer 50

Reoccurring idea, theme.

Question 51

Example of motif?

Answer 51

Latika wears yellow constantly which represents wealth | Where she wears it: the end kiss, when she is being chased by Salim at the train station, and when she is in the dump

Question 52

At one point in the story it seems to rewind (Latika is going backwards) what do you think is the point of this rewind/flashback ?

Answer 52

To remind her of everything they have gone through together, a way of undoing. It shows all the struggles she went through and proves it was worth it.

Question 53

What denomination does Salim fill the tub with ?

Answer 53

1000 rupee

Question 54

Where has 1000 rupee been mentioned?

Answer 54

Jamal was asked a question about rupee

Question 55

Who is on the 1000 rupee?

Answer 55

Ghandi

Question 56

What is an example showing the Salim will do anything for money?

Answer 56

He kills Javed

Question 57

Cite an example showing Jamal doesn't care about money?

Answer 57

When he gives 100 dollar bill to the girl who's eyes got burned

Question 58

Yellow represents wealth & Latika wears yellow all the time. Therefore what is Jamal's definition of wealth?

Answer 58

Love

Question 59

What phrases in the story show the importance of fate ?

Answer 59

It is written

Question 60

What is a theme of the movie?

Answer 60

Money isn't everything, love is everything. Struggle happens for a reason.

Question 61

Brahma story

Answer 61

Brahma is a story about the Hindu god, the creator. It addresses the idea that God is in all things and uses a lot of paradoxes (shadow and sunlight are the same) to show this

Question 62

Gunga din

Answer 62

About an Indian boy who carried the water for a British soldier (Richard Kipling). In the story, the soldier gets shot and is "mad with thirst" gunga din came and gave him water that was slimy and green. Gunga din then carried the man away and got shot, but got Richard to the tent and told him he hoped he enjoyed his drink. Richard goes on to say gunga din will give him drink in heaven and ends with he is a better man than I, gunga din.

Question 63

Allegory

Answer 63

Extended metaphor. . First, there's the surface of the story. You know, the characters and plot and all that obvious stuff. Then there's the symbolic level, or the deeper meaning that all the jazz on the surface represents.