1. Adversity – Night and Gran Torino take two
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2. PLOT
CHARACTERS
SETTING
THEME
LIT DEVICES 60 60 60 60 60 70 70 70 70 70 80 80 80 80 80 90 90 90 90 90
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3. Plot – 60 Points QUESTION: ANSWER:
This is the reason that Father Janovich visits Walt.
ANSWER:
What is a promise he made to Dorothy, Walt’s wife?

4. PLOT – 70 Points QUESTION: ANSWER:
The three final things that Walt does before meeting with Thao about getting revenge against the gang
ANSWER:
What is the barber, the tailer and confession?

5. PLOT – 80 Points QUESTION: ANSWER:
the event causes Elie to think that soup tasted like corpses
ANSWER:
What is the hanging of Pipel?

6. PLOT – 90 Points QUESTION: ANSWER:
The event that causes Elie to secretly wish that he would not find his father and therefore be rid of the burden.
ANSWER:
What is an alert, a raid?

7. PLOT – 100 Points QUESTION: ANSWER:
After Elie and his family are forced to wear the yellow Jewish star and after the foreign Jews are expelled, the Jewish people are forced to move into ghettos. Still the Jewish people feel that things will get better. This is what Elie says rules the ghetto
ANSWER:
What is illusion?

8. CHARACTERS– 60 Points QUESTION: ANSWER:
The name of the gang member that is Thoa’s cousin.
ANSWER:
Who is Spider?

9. CHARACTERS – 70 Points QUESTION: ANSWER:
The name of the man whose son leaves him behind during the march from Auschwitz to Buchenwald
ANSWER:
Who is Rabbi Eliahou?

10. CHARACTERS – 80 Points QUESTION: ANSWER:
The name of the oberkapo that runs the building unit
ANSWER:
Who is Idek?

11. CHARACTERS – 90 Points QUESTION: ANSWER:
The name of Walt’s oldest son that tries to put him in the nursing home
ANSWER:
Who is Mitch Kowalsky

12. CHARACTERS – 100 Points QUESTION: ANSWER:
The name of the character who asks his fellow prisoners to recite the Kaddish for him.
ANSWER:
Who is Akiba Drummer?

13. SETTING – 60 Points QUESTION: ANSWER: The name of Elie’s hometown
What is Sighet, Translyvania?

14. SETTING – 70 Points QUESTION: ANSWER:
The company that Walt spent 50 years working for.
ANSWER:
What is Ford?

15. SETTING – 80 Points QUESTION: ANSWER:
The reason why the city in Gran Torino is never named?
ANSWER:
What is because it is supposed to represent any American city?

16. SETTING – 90 Points QUESTION: ANSWER:
The name of the town where they caught the train after their long March.
ANSWER:
What is Gleiwitz?

17. SETTING – 100 Points QUESTION: ANSWER:
The month that Elie’s father passes away and the month that Elie is liberated.
ANSWER:
What is January and April?

18. THEME – 60 Points QUESTION: ANSWER:
This scene involving Thao and a neighbor further develops the main theme that despite cultural differences, individuals may have more in common than they think.
ANSWER:
What is the scene where Thao collects the groceries

19. THEME – 70 Points QUESTION: ANSWER:
The inclusion of Zalman in Night helps us to understand this aspect of the theme of hope.
ANSWER:
What is that hope can not guarantee survival

20. THEME – 80 Points QUESTION: ANSWER:
Feelings of anger at his father when he’s beaten, wanting to not find his father at Buchenwald and killing his father for food all relate to this idea about humanity.
ANSWER:
What are examples of the idea that in desperation, survival is more important than feelings and relationships?

21. THEME – 90 Points QUESTION: ANSWER:
At the end of the film, Walt confesses his sins to show this main theme.
ANSWER:
What is that redemption can only come when an individual is willing to face up to their sins?

22. THEME – 100 Points QUESTION: ANSWER:
Locking Thao in the basement represents what this to Walt
ANSWER:
How does Walt protectThao from feeling the guilt that haunts Walt?

23. LITERARY DEVICES – 60 Points
QUESTION:
This literary device is illustrated when the head of the block says to Elie that “everyman has to fight for himself and not think of anyone else” yet every person who loses those closest to him dies.
ANSWER:
What is irony?

24. LITERARY DEVICES – 70 Points
QUESTION:
After hearing Walt express that he won’t allow his neighbors to eat his dog, Sue ironically tells him this.
ANSWER:
What is that they only eat cats?

25. LITERARY DEVICES – 80 Points
QUESTION:
The literary device used when Elie describes the “thick smoke that poisoned the air and took one by the throat
ANSWER:
What is personification?

26. LITERARY DEVICES – 90 Points
QUESTION:
the man that is alluded to by positioning of his Walt’s body when he dies.
ANSWER:
Who is Jesus?

27. LITERARY DEVICES – 100 Points
QUESTION:
This is the symbol of both Walt’s success and his guilt. He hides it from his grandson’s and gives it to Thao.
ANSWER:
What is his silver cross medal?