Dead Poets Society Basic Trivia

 In Dead Poets Society, Mr. Nolan serves what purpose in the story?

• antagonist

• protagonist

• foil

• narrator

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Which narrative aspect of Dead Poets Society was applicable in its set time period, the 1950s, and its filmed timed period, the 1980s?

• Its exploration of fashion trends

• Its critique of modern technology

• Its themes of individualism and conformity

• Its focus on historical events of the 1950s

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

In Dead Poets Society, the Walt Whitman poem “O Captain, My Captain!” plays a central narrative role. To whom did Whitman write this poem as a tribute?

• Abraham Lincoln

• George Washington

• Winston Churchill

• Henry David Thoreau

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

How does Neil "carpe diem" in Dead Poets Society?

• He becomes a staunch advocate for conformity.

• He pursues his passion for acting and poetry.

• He alienates his friends and isolates himself.

• He rejects Mr. Keating's teachings and embraces tradition.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

By telling his students to “rip out the pages” in their poetry textbooks, what is Keating actually telling his students to do?

• He wants his students to vandalize school property.

• He is encouraging students to take ownership of their education.

• He is discouraging reading poetry altogether.

• He is promoting conformity by following the textbook.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Which aspect of Keating’s teaching signals his catering his curriculum to his audience in particular?

• The idea that language was invented to woo women

• The idea of sucking the marrow out of the bones of life

• Teaching Whitman's poem

• Ripping pages out of textbooks

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

The story is set at

• a public school

• at aprivate elementary schol

• at a boarding school

• at a prestigious college

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

The new English teacher has been employed because

• the former English teacher was expelled

• the former English teacher had retired

• Welton needed a second English teacher

• Mr. Keating knew the headmaster

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CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

Mr. Keating tells the class that they

• are food for worms.

• to seize the day

• should make their lives extraordinary

• can call him "O Captain! My Captain!"

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Neil deliberately

• quits being coeditor of the school magazine

• stops acting

• starts acting

• makes an effort to respect his parents

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.7