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There are many reasons you might ask a question in class, the most obvious being that you would like to know the answer. But sometimes, raising your hand is a strategic maneuver. You need the participation points, for instance, or you’re trying to get a divisive classroom discussion going because you worship chaos.<\/p>\n
Whatever your agenda, it’s best to have list of questions at the ready. That’s where I come in. If you’ve already exhausted the ones I \u00a0came up with last time<\/a>, try:<\/p>\n 1.<\/strong> Why was Robert Frost always so surprised by death as a concept? Why did he keep forgetting this sometimes happens?<\/p>\n 2.<\/strong> Did Geoffrey Chaucer know that there are women in this world who are not named Alyson?<\/p>\n 3.<\/strong> What exactly does \u00a0“wyrd” mean, and why do \u00a0they keep casually \u00a0throwing \u00a0it around in Beowulf<\/i> like it’s something I should know?<\/p>\n 4.<\/strong> Edmund Pevensie ransomed off his entire family for Turkish delight, which is a foodstuff I’ve never actually tasted. Am I missing out?<\/p>\n 5.<\/strong> In Pride and Prejudice<\/i>, Mr. Bingley is described as having “four or five thousand a year” and I have no idea what that \u00a0means.<\/p>\n 6.<\/strong> \u00a0Why do I get such a “DEMON CHILD” vibe from Hester Prynne’s daughter, Pearl?<\/p>\n 7.<\/strong> \u00a0What I’m hearing is that \u00a0Malcolm’s \u00a0soldiers grabbed tree branches \u00a0and approached Macbeth’s castle pretending to be a forest so he wouldn’t suspect they were actually an invading army, so \u00a0I guess my question is why did this work?<\/p>\n 8.<\/strong> Why couldn’t \u00a0Roger Chillingworth just name himself “Steve \u00a0McBadGuy” and be \u00a0done with it?<\/p>\n 9.<\/strong> \u00a0How do vampires actually have sex? The act, as I understand it, involves particulars that I cannot for the life of me make sense of. I know this isn’t your area of expertise, but I don’t know who else to ask.<\/p>\n 10.<\/strong> Why didn’t \u00a0James Joyce know when to stop? You know, just generally.<\/p>\n 11.<\/strong> \u00a0Okay, fine, so what was the name of Frankenstein’s \u00a0monster<\/em>?<\/p>\n 12.<\/strong> \u00a0I feel like I have questions about \u00a0Catch-22<\/em> \u00a0but I don’t know what they are.<\/p>\n 13.<\/strong> In A Midsummer Night’s Dream<\/em>, why is it that the name of every single human woman begins with the letter H? I lost five points on my essay for mixing up Hermia and Helena and let me tell you, if Hippolyta had been a more prominent character, we would have been on the fast track to total catastrophe.<\/p>\n 14.<\/strong> Why was Heathcliff such a tool?<\/p>\n 15.<\/strong> Given that the protagonist of Moby Dick ambiguously \u00a0says<\/a>, \u00a0“Call me Ishmael” instead of something more definitive like “My name is Ishmael,” should we just assume that his real name is something really boring, like Stanley or Greg?<\/p>\n 16.<\/strong> Gavroche. Just, why?<\/p>\n 17.<\/strong> Could Emily Bronte have possibly come up with a LESS \u00a0euphonic name than \u00a0Thrushcross Grange?<\/p>\n 18.<\/strong> Why did \u00a0Heart of Darkness<\/em> have to be so upsetting?<\/p>\n 19.<\/strong> \u00a0Do you think Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Shelley would’ve let me join \u00a0their squad?<\/p>\n 20.<\/strong> What the hell kind of name is \u00a0Orgoglio?<\/p>\n 21.<\/strong> What the hell kind of name is Nick Bottom?<\/p>\n 22.<\/strong> Why didn’t Curley’s wife get \u00a0a name in \u00a0Of Mice and Men<\/em>? My best guess is because she had lady parts, but I don’t know for sure.<\/p>\n 23.<\/strong> How did nobody notice an actual human corpse dropping from the sky in \u00a0Lord of the Flies<\/em>?<\/p>\n 24.<\/strong> \u00a0Can we all just agree that Daisy and Tom Buchanan were made for each other?<\/p>\n 25.<\/strong> \u00a0Is Boo Radley single? Asking for a friend.<\/p>\n This post was originally published in 2016<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are many reasons you might ask a question in class, the most obvious being that you would like to know the answer. But sometimes, raising your hand is a strategic maneuver. You need the continue reading<\/span>