Night of the Meek
For 2 December 2008
View this program from The Twilight Zone in three segments (1, 2, 3), then prepare the following questions.1. What time was the bartender supposed to notify Mr. Corwin?
2. How much does Corwin owe the bartender?
3. For what?
4. What kind of Santa Claus dows Corwin wish for?
5. What does the bartender think has gone to Corwin's head?
6. What is the bartender's name?
7. Who does the bartender say is trying to heist the joint?
8. What does "heist the joint" mean?
9. What does the little girl ask Santa for?
10. What other gifts are asked for?
11. What is a uniquely popular American institution?
12. Who's an ersatz Santa Claus?
13. Narrator, Rod Serling, says the North Pole Corwin is about to enter is one part the wondrous spirit of Christmas and another part, magic. Where can this magic only be found?
14. How late is Corwin at the department store?
15. Whom doesn't the store manager, Mr. Dundee, want to be disillusioned?
16. He calls Mr. Corwin a wino. What might that mean?
17. What is the little boy's name who sits on Santa's lap?
18. What's his nickname?
19. What does the boy call Santa after he stumbles and falls?
20. What does that mean?
21. Why does the mother think her son may have suffered a traumatic experience?
22. What does the mother angrily tell the manager? (Incidentally, that's an unusal expression. What is the word more likely used today?)
23. Where does she say the store hires its Santa Clauses?
24. The manager sarcastically calls Santa "Mr. Kris Kringle of the lower depths." Google who Kris Kringle is. Discuss the meaning of "the lower depths" (also the name of a famous Russian play).
25. How many hours till closing time?
26. What is Dundee's distinct pleasure?
27. In one word, how does Dundee characterize Santa's suit?
28. What does Santa admit is indefensible?
29. What kind of apologies does he give? (Look the word up based on sound if you've never heard it before.)
30. What does Corwin say he has little choice in?
31. What does he say are his two alternatives?
32. Which is the more subtle of the two?
33. What does Corwin say someone should remind the woman who complained about him?
34. According to him, what four virtues should Christmas come with?
35. In one word, what does Dundee call Corwin's long drunken statement?
36. According to Dundee, what standards has Corwin graciously laid down (another word for Christmas)?
37. Who, according to Corwin, is an aging, purposeless relic of another time?
38. Where does Corwin live?
39. Who lives on his street?
40. What, according to Corwin, comes down the chimney on Christmas Eve?
41. Why does Corwin drink?
42. What does he want to see happen to the meek on one Christmas?
43. What does the bartender call Santa (Corwin) when he knocks on the bar door? (If you don't know the word look it up based on sound.)
44. What does the word mean?
45. What song does the woman sing in church?
46. What is her name, or formal title?
47. What does the sign behind her on the wall say?
48. What does the woman accuse an old man of doing to the Christmas Eve service when he enters the church?
49. When was the last time he's touched a drop, according to him? Last Thursday. ("I haven't touched a drop" is an idiom for drinking an alcoholic beverage.)
50. According to him, what kind of truth does he speak (another idiom)?
51. Who does he say is heading down the street?
52. What does Bert fancy (desire) from Santa?
53. What does Bert want to go with his pipe?
54. What does Corwin's Santa bag give to everyone?
55. What does Corwin give the woman who sang the Christmas carol in church (he gives the gift to someone else to give to her)?
56. Corwin admits to being drunk, but with what special spirit?
57. What are two other words for "drunk" used by Corwin? (Look them up based on sound if you don't know them.)
58. According to Corwin, what has magic and wonder?
59. Why does the policeman ask to see a receipt?
60. What does he want the church singer to do with the gifts until he finds out who owns them?
61. Dundee hopes to see his wistful St. Nicholas go up the river for ten years. What does "up the river" mean?
62. How long has Santa been giving out his gifts according to a policeman?
63. Whom does Dundee call a moth-eaten Robin Hood?
64. Corwin and Dundee both use the phrase "a slight discrepancy." What does that mean?
65. The bag held gifts before, but (in one word) what does the bag hold in the police station?
66. What does the policeman say they are dealing with?
67. Dundee uses the word "abracadabra." (Look up the word and discuss it in class. When is it normally used?)
68. What does Dundee fancy from the bag?
69. What vintage?
70. What does "vintage" mean?
71. What is the policeman's name?
72. What color is the sweater that Corwin gives from his bag?
73. What kind of dog does he give from his bag?
74. What baseball gift does he give?
75. What does Corwin say to his porch neighbor, Bert, what he really wanted?
76. What is the gift he would really like?
77. According to the girl elf, how much hard work is required to get ready for next Christmas?
78. What Christmas carol is chimed out by bells as Dundee and the policeman walk home together?
79. Why is the policeman afraid of telling Dundee what he saw in the sky?
80. When Dundee invites the policeman home, what does he say they'll pour into their hot coffee?
81. What does Dundee say they should thank God for?
82. Narrator Rod Serling says a word to the wise to all the children of the 20th century, whether their concern is pediatrics or geriatrics. What two age groups are involved in those two words?
83. Which group of people have a special magic reserved for them?
84. According to Serling, what is mightier than the meek?
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