Hemingway Code Hero and Hero's Journey Quiz

Which quote best exemplifies the Hemingway Code Hero characteristic of self-discipline?

• His shirt had been patched so many times that it was like the sail...

• But I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg.

• But what about the 87 of your great record?

• he left the smell of the land behind...

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

The following quote best corresponds with which Hemingway Hero characteristic? "When he and the boy fished together they usually spoke only when it was necessary...It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it."

• Grace Under Pressure

• A Man's Man

• A Man of Action Not Words

• Avoid Death

The following quote best corresponds with which Hemingway Hero characteristic? "Perhaps he is too wise to jump...his fight has no panic in it."

• Avoid Death

• A Man's Man

• Grace Under Pressure

• A Man of Action Not Words

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

On the Hero's Journey Clock, the events in the top half take place in the ____________ while the events in the lower half take place in the ___________.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Santiago is compared to what other literary hero who went on a journey?

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CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

When Santiago describes the marlin he uses words like...

• noble, fastest fish in the sea, strong, intelligent

• friend, brother, beauty

• pig, scavenger, bad-smelling

• elegance, speed, friend, strange in their love-making

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which quote is NOT a literary allusion to the bible?

• Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

• He felt the line ... with his right hand and noticed his hand was bleeding.

• he slept face down on the newspapers with his arms out straight and the palms of his hands up.

• He started to climb again and at the top he fell and lay for some time with the mast across his shoulder. He tried to get up. But it was too difficult...

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Which quote best exemplifies the idea of "Destroyed but not Defeated"?

• I told the boy I was a strange old man.

• Fish," he said softly, aloud,"I'll stay with you until I am dead.

• I am sorry I cannot hoist the sail and take you in with the small breeze that is rising.

• He rubbed the cramped hand against his trousers and tried to gentle the fingers. But it would not open.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The following quote corresponds to which time on the Hero's Journey Clock? "He rowed over the part of the ocean that the fisherman called the great well because there was a sudden deep of seven hundred fathoms where all sorts of fish congregated because of the swirl the current made against the steep walls of the floor of the ocean."

• The Return

• New Life

• The Trials

• The Departure

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Santiago experiences a moment of truth, best exemplified through the repetition of the phrase ...

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.7