Instructions for Jeopardy There are 5 categories Each category contains 5 point amounts from When it is your teams turn you will decide on a category and dollar amount You will then be given the answer to a question and you must provide the question stating with “What is or Who is” Failure to ask “who or what is” will result in an incorrect answer, and other teams will be open to answer

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A bright red, water- insoluble pigment usually produced by the reaction of mercury and sulfur

What is Vermilion?

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An advocate of women's suffrage, especially in the United Kingdom.

What is a suffragette?

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A wood nymph

What is a Dryad?

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A riddle, the answer to which involves a pun or play on words

What is a conundrum?

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An unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange

What is Xenophobic?

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The main character of the novel, who suffers from depression and doesn’t speak.

Who is Melinda?

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Melinda’s ex-best friend from middle school.

Who is Rachel?

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Boy who tried to befriend Melinda, and defends her in Mr. Neck’s class.

Who is David?

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Becomes friends with Melinda in the beginning of the year, but ditches her for the Martha's.

Who is Heather?

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One of Melinda’s ex- friends from middle school, who befriends her as the year goes on, and is in her art class.

Who is Ivy?

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A group of girls who coordinate their clothing and do crafts, service projects, and good deeds.

Who are the Martha's?

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The school athletes, particularly her ex- friend Nicole.

Who are the Jocks?

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A group of girls who Melinda dubs the “blondest of the blondes,” and who “sleep with the football team on Saturday,” and “are reincarnated into virginal goddesses on Monday.”

What are Cheerleaders?

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The social group, or lack of group that Melinda considers herself to be a part of.

What is an outcast?

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A group that Rachel tried to join, and that incites her name change.

Who are the foreign exchange students?

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Major theme of the novel, effects Melinda emotional and physically.

What is depression?

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Four changes in the novel that represent the progression of the school year and the changes that occur.

What are the seasons?

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A theme in the novel that represents how others treat Melinda.

What is Alienation?

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The theme in the novel that shows how Melinda felt. i.e. Shame and guilt

What is repression?

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"What Melinda and David Petrakis do not believe they have in Mr. Neck's class"

What is freedom of speech?

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This constant change through out the novel symbolize an identity crisis for not only Melinda, but for all of the students at Merryweather High.

What is the School Mascot?

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This is symbolic of Melinda’s growth as a person. It also symbolize her growth as a person after the rape.

What is a tree?

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These women are symbolic of Melinda’s struggle in history class as well as her struggle to speak in the novel.

What are the Suffragettes?

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The author on Melinda's poster in her closet. A symbol of repression and encouragement for Melinda.

Who is Maya Angelou?

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A place that represents safety for Melinda. A place that she can call her own and express herself and display her art.

What is the janitor’s closet?

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The name of Melinda’s attacker and the location of his second and final attack.

Who is Andy Evens in the janitor’s closet?