NBTT Jeopardy

The Plot Literary Elements

The Truth

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Final Jeopardy

$100 Question

The conflict that sets the plot of NBTT in motion is between which two characters?

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Who are Phillip Malloy and Miss Narwin?

$200 Question

Most students think that Miss Narwin is what type of teacher?

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What is fair and a good teacher?

$300 Question

In the beginning of the novel, Miss Narwin has an internal conflict over this.

$300 Answer

What is if her teaching is up to date with modern

students?

$400 Question

The coach doesn’t want Philip to try out for the track team because…

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What is Philip does not have good enough grades to run track?

$500 Question

How does Ted Griffen use the conflict between Philip and Miss Narwin to his advantage?

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What is he turns Philip’s story into one of patriotism and then says that he supports patriotism in order to get elected on the school board?

$100 Question

What type of novel is NBTT?

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What is a documentary novel?

$200 Question

Characters in a novel are…

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What is the people or animals in a story?

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What is a theme in literature?

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What is what insight the author gives about humanity?

$400 Question

This is how Avi reveals his characters in NBTT.

$400 Answer

What is through quotes, showing how they act, and telling how others respond to them?

$500 Question

Irony is a contrast between expectation and reality. What three things are ironic at the end of the novel?

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What is 1) Philip has little support from his classmates 2) Ends up at a school without a track team and 3) doesn’t know the words to the National Anthem?

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What does Mr. Malloy want for Philip?

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What is to get on the track team and stand up for himself?

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What is Ted Griffen’s role in the novel?

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What is a politician running for the school board who uses the main conflict to his advantage?

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Why is Allison Dorsett important to the plot?

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What is she shows how the kids really feel about Philip and Miss Narwin?

$400 Question

Who is Mr. Lunser?

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Who is Philip Malloy’s original homeroom teacher who goofs around a lot?

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What kind of person is Dr. Palleni?

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What is a person who just wants to sweep issues under the rug?

$100 Question

Philip was suspended for…

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What is humming the national anthem?

$200 Question

Philip was in this grade when his conflict with Miss Narwin happened.

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What is 9th grade?

$300 Question

Who suspended Philip?

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Who is Dr. Palleni?

$400 Question

True or false: Everyone hates Miss Narwin.

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What is False?

$500 Question

Why was Philip really suspended from school?

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What is he was sent to the office twice for disrupting class and the school policy is to suspend a student sent to the office twice in one week.

$100 Question

This word means existing or occurring at the same time.

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What is contemporary?

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This is to see something in advance.

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What is foresee ?

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This is tending to provoke.

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What is provacative?

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This is the part of speech of animosity.

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What is a noun?

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This is the language of origin of vigilant.

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What is Latin?

Final Jeopardy

How is the story’s ending ironic?

Final Jeopardy Answer

Because irony is when something happens differently than expected. Everyone expected Philip to know the national anthem and he didn’t.