Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What do the scratched-out sections of the book represent?
The need for Wite-out
Octavian's education
Mr. Sharpe's censorship of Octavian
Octavian's grief and anger over the death of his mother
Q. What theme does this quotation refer to: "Music hath its land of origin; and yet it is also its own country, its own sovereign power, and all may take refuge there, and all, once settled, may claim it as their own, and all may meet there in amity; and these instruments, as surely as instruments of torture, belong to all of us"?
Coming-of-Age
Disneyland's Frontier Land
Suffering
Art and Culture
Q. What character best represents the theme of "Women & Femininity" in the novel?
The College scholars' wives
The female slaves
Cassiopeia
Scarlett Johansson
Q. When Dr. Trefusis teaches Octavian the history of slavery in Roman times, he is trying to show Octavian how to…
bake a cake.
empower himself after being whipped.
suffer.
become a good soldier.
Q. One of the main goals of this book is to show how…
slavery exposes the hypocrisy of the Patriots' cause.
slavery takes away a woman's feminine identity.
African slaves were smart and talented too.
to tell a philosophical joke in the middle of a crisis