The Old Man and the Sea Test

Old man’s favorite baseball player

The Great (Joe) Dimaggio

Old man’s favorite baseball team

The New York Yankees

\# of days the old man went without catching a fish

eighty-four

Name of young boy

Manolin

“How old was I when you first took me in a boat?”

Five

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes, is this type of figurative language

Personification

Setting of story

Cuba

The sail was patched with flour sacks and, __ (rolled up); it looked like the flag of permanent defeat

furled

“I wanted to take him (Dick Sisler) fishing, but I was too __(nervous, fearful) to ask him”

timid

Small spanish grocery store

bodego

big hook the fisherman use to haul a big fish into the boat

Gaff

(the fish) waited for the ice truck to carry them to the market in __, the capitial of the Caribbean island country

Havana

Type of fish the old man was fishing for

Marlin

The old man was now definitely and finally __, which is the worst form of unlucky

salao

The old man had many __ or old things that are left behind of his wife

Relics

The other type of fish that was hunted for its liver, fins, and hide

Shark

“You’re my __ clock,” the boy said

alarm

There was no cast net and the boy remembered when they had sold it. But they went through this __(fantasy) every day

fiction

coffee is what type of figurative language

metaphor

A long spear used by fishermen to capture a big fish

Harpoon

“Can I offer you a __ on the Terrace and then we’ll take the stuff home”

beer

furled is what type of figurative language

Simile

famous cuban dish that the old man and the boy ate for supper

black beans and rice

Type of fish that the boy brings the old man as bait

Sardines

The way the fishermen kill a big fish; by __ it

clubbing

the only thing that the man would drink or eat all day; a cup of __

coffee

the country that the old man dreamed of

africa

but these poisonings from the agua mala or the ___ came quickly and stuck like a whiplash

portuguese man of war

Microscopic group of organisms that float on the sea (whales eat them)

plankton

he had a friendly contempt for the huge, stupid loggerheards; is what kind of figurative language

oxymoron

But today is __ days and I should fish the day well

eighty five

“he’s got something,” the old man said aloud. “he’s not just looking.” the bird he is referring to is:

man of war

that __ (group of fish) has gotten away from me, he thought

school

a unit of measure used by sailors to measure depth in the ocean equivalent to 6 feet

fathom

he also drank a cup of __ liver oil each day

shark

“it was __ when i hooked him” he said “ and i have never seen him”

noon

This will kill him, but four hours later the fish was still swimming steadily out to sea, __ (dragging the skiff)

towing

How the old man told the time; by the position of the __

sun

“__” (a kind of tuna) he said aloud. “he’ll make a beautiful bait

albacore

the only seabirds that he did not feel sorry for; the __

robber birds

the small fishing boat that the old man used; a __

skiff

The old man’s prinicipal friends on the ocean

flying fish

most people are __ about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered

heartless

sometimes those who love her (the sea) say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a __

woman

The first fish he saw; “__” the old man said aloud. “Big __”

Dolphin

One hundred fathoms down a __ was eating the sardines that covered the point and the shank of the hook

marlin