State QR 4 Flashcards
(10 cards)
This musical descendant of the serpent ranges in size from 3/4 to 6/4. Its specialized relatives
include the helicon, euphonium, and sousaphone. Name this largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument.
tuba
This character loves music and gratefully receives the piano of Mr. Laurence’s deceased
granddaughter. She contracts scarlet fever from the Hummels’ baby and dies from its complications a few
years later. Name this next-to-youngest March sister in Little Women.
Beth (March)
Alternate names for this type of stage include “corridor stage” and “catwalk.” Set designers can’t use backdrops on one because they would prevent the audience from seeing the action. Name a stage that
the audience sits on two opposite sides of.
traverse (stage)
This Newbery winner consists of two dialogues and nineteen monologues that mix prose and verse. Its characters include Alice the shepherdess, Nelly the eel seller, and Hugo the lord’s nephew. The Middle
Ages are the setting for which Laura Amy Schlitz book?
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
Visitors to this world capital may use its underground transit system known as “the Tube” to visit such popular public spaces as Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. Identify this European city, home to Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace.
London (England)
This painter included three witnesses to the title event in his 1665 work The Return of the Prodigal Son. Almost a decade earlier, he imagined a scene from Genesis in Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph. Give
the name of this Baroque artist of Man in Oriental Costume.
Rembrandt
Two years separated this artist’s companion pieces The White Duchess and The Black Duchess. Two Old Ones Eating Soup and Witches’ Sabbath are part of his Black Paintings. Identify the artist of The
Second of May 1808.
(Francisco de) Goya
In this novel, an unnamed boy encounters the title characters in his Great Aunt Sophy’s house. That family–Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock–consists of tiny people who steal household items from the so-called “big people.” What is this Mary Norton children’s novel?
The Borrowers
This historical novel’s protagonist, Ada, suffers abuse because of her clubfoot. When she and her brother Jamie move in with Susan Smith, they discover true love and safety from the Blitz in London. Give
the title of this Newbery Honor Book by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley.
The War That Saved My Life
This UNESCO World Heritage Site consists of 800 acres and buildings from almost every decade of an architect’s career. Among those buildings are the Unity Chapel, the Romeo and Juliet Windmill, and the
Hillside Studio and Theater. Identify this Spring Green, Wisconsin attraction, which was formerly the estate
of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Taliesin
