MS QR League 2022 Flashcards
(10 cards)
This holiday celebrates the day Buddha attained enlightenment. Typically celebrated on December 8. What holiday is named for the tree Buddha was famous for sitting under?
Bodhi (boh-dee) Day
This short story’s dual protagonists are a teenage would-be thief and his intended victim. Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones takes Roger home to her apartment where she fixes him dinner and gives him $10 to buy blue suede shoes. Name this examination of trust and kindness by Langston Hughes.
Thank You, Ma’am
Jewish holiday celebrated with a Seder meal. Featured in Old Testament Book of Exodus and celebrates the Jewish people’s escape from slavery in Egypt.
Passover
Poem by Nikki Giovanni featuring lines: “mankind/alone among the animals/learns to cry” and “if i can’t do/what i want to do/then my job is to not/ do what i don’t want/ to do.”
Choices
Smaller branch of Islam that believes that the Prophet Muhammed chose his son-in-law Ali as his successor.
Shi’a (shee-uh)
He shot all the stars out of the sky, except the Lone Star, to impress Slue-Foot Sue. Legendary Texas cowboy raised by coyotes.
Pecos Bill
Dance, with African and Trinidad & Tobago origins that was originally performed at wakes. A prop used in the dance represents a pole on slave ships that kept the slaves in chains. Name this dance in which a person must pass under a horizontal bar that is progressively lowered.
Limbo
literary element that creates and maintains a reader’s interest. can be external or internal and propels the plot. can be person vs. person or person vs. self.
conflict
Element of dance concerned with the dancer’s emotions, perceptions, and imagination. Felt by the dancer and seen by the audience, made of muscles, organs, and bones.
body
Designed the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore (san jor-jee-oh muh-jor-ay). Famous for Teatro Olimpico (tay-ah-tro oh-leem-pee-koh) located in Vicenza (vee-CHEN-zah). Name this author of The Four Books of Architecture.
Palladio (puh-LAH-dee-oh)
