Assisi quote themes

Question 1

“The dwarf with his hands on backwards”

Answer 1

Suffering and plight/isolation of the disabled

Question 2

“sat, slumped like a half-filled sack”

Answer 2

Suffering and plight/isolation of the disabled

Question 3

“tiny twisted legs from which

sawdust might run,”

Answer 3

Suffering and plight/isolation of the disabled

Question 4

“outside the three tiers of churches built”

Answer 4

Contrast

Question 5

“In honour of st. Francis, brother
of the poor, talker with birds, over whom
he had the advantage
of not being dead yet.”

Answer 5

Injustice

Question 6

“priest explained
how clever it was of Giotto
to make his frescoes tell stories
that would reveal to the illiterate the goodness
of God and suffering of His Son”

Answer 6

Hypocrisy

Question 7

“I understood
the explanation and
the cleverness.

Answer 7

Hypocrisy/irony

Question 8

“A rush of tourists, clucking contentedly,
fluttered after him as he scattered
the grain of the World.”

Answer 8

Social contrast/injustice

Question 9

“they who had passed
the ruined temple outside, whose eyes
wept pus, whose back was higher
than his head, whose lopsided mouth”

Answer 9

Suffering and plight/isolation of the disabled

Question 10

“Grazie in a voice as sweet
as a child’s when she speaks to her mother
or a bird’s when it spoke
to St Francis.”

Answer 10

Inner and outer beauty