TPB

What were the two things Buttercup hated to do?

Bathing and brushing her hair

Explain why Buttercup agrees to marry Prince Humperdinck. Be specific

Because they both agree that it will be a lovless marriage as well as that she will get killed if she doese not.

Why does Domingo refuse to let the six-fingered man have the sword?

He does not appreciate it.

Yeste

Madrid's most famous sword-maker, for whom Inigo's father made back-order swords.

Why does Prince Humperdinck establish the Zoo of Death?

So that he does not have to travel to hunt.

How long does it take Domingo to make the six-fingered sword

a year

Valerie

Miracle Max's wife. Valeries stands in as his witch, since all miracle men must have their own witches.

Yellin

The Chief of all Enforcement in Florin City. Along with Count Rugen, Yellin is Humperdinck's only confidante.

Dread Pirate Roberts

The most feared pirate name on the seas. Dread Pirate Roberts captured Westley, and passed the name onto him.

The Albino

The strange and silent character who takes care of Humperdinck's Zoo of Death.

What problem does Inigo encounter?

He cannot find the six-fingered man.

What does Inigo discover about the man in black?

He is better at fencing than Inigo.

Domingo Montoya

Inigo Montoya's father. Domingo was a great sword-maker who was killed by Count Rugen.

How does Inigo get Fezzik to defeat the anaconda?

Inigo makes him think about rhyming.

Why is the front door of the Zoo of Death always unlocked?

It's a fake entrance.

To what does Inigo devote his life?

Learning to fence, so he can avenge his father.

What does William Goldman decide that this book is really all about?

Life isn't fair.

What threatens to harm Buttercup after she jumps into the water?

Sharks

Why does Prince Humperdinck refuse to marry Princess Noreena?

She is bald

Explain how Princess Buttercup demonstrates bravery in this section. Give at least one specific example (concrete detail).

She jumps into the ocean at night, and swims in the water after the bandits say there were sharks. She lays awake under a blanket listening to the bandits plan to kill her. Doesnt move even when the Siillian knows shes awake

Why is it important for the reader to know about Inigo's and Fezzik's childhoods?

So the reader will understand what motivates them through the rest of the book.

What does Wesley reveal to Buttercup about his life the past three years?

That he has become a pirate and ownes the ship of revenge. He worked as a slave for the pirates and then got to become second in command

What does Inigo say is "his great, his only, love" ?

The six-fingered sword Explain who is Yeste by including concrete details about him. Yeste is another sword maker. He makes swords for every one causing him to be rich and fat. Indigo goes to him and he says that he is still not good enough to fight the man that killed his father.

Prince Humperdinck announces that he will marry Princess Buttercup on Florin's 500th th anniversary. •

True

Prince Humperdinck kills an orangutan in this section.

True

Give an example of the theme "love and loyalty" from this section.

When Buttercup leaves Westley so that they can both live.

What is Count Rugen interested in more than anything else?

studying pain

Vizzini

A Sicilian man of genius. Vizzini is the brains behind the trio (himself, Fezzik and Inigo) were hired by Humperdinck to kidnap and murder Buttercup. He is smug, ruthless, and killed quickly in a battle of wits against Westley.

Why does Inigo hate the Thieves Quarter?

Because he is scrawny, and bigger fighters try to rob him.

Why does the old woman "boo" Buttercup?

Because she knows that she is not really in love with the prince and realy loves westley.

Westley

Buttercup's beloved Farm Boy. Westley is a brave, multi-talented man who leaves to seek his fortune, is reportedly murdered by the Dread Pirate Roberts, and returns, costumed as the Man in Black, to rescue Buttercup from everything that threatens her. Hero

Explain why Max calls Valerie a "witch".

Every mircle man needs a witch

Bill Goldman is close to his son, just like Goldman and his own father.

False

William Golding says he loved listening to his ________ read The Princess Bride

Father

How do Fezzik and Inigo get past the green speckled recluse?

Fezzik breaks the door; Inigo steps on it.

"Morgenstern" uses a common literary device to tell the reader about Inigo's and Fezzik's childhoods. What is this common literary device?

Flashback

From where does Princess Noreena come from

Guilder

Please explain why Goldman decides to abridge The Princess Bride.

HE wants to take out the boring parts of it

Explain why William Goldman, the author, deletes Chapter from the book. Explain his use of italics as a narrator. Be specific for Chapter

He thinks that Florin history is boring as well as the prepartion for meeting the princess and for the wedding of buttercup is borng. As a kid when he heard the story he would fall alsopeep during this part of the book and thinks it is very boring, bringing up that this part will cure your insamnia becase it is so boring.

What does Prince Humperdink want to happen to the Thieves Quarter?

He wants it emptied before his honeymoon.

What is Prince Humperdinck's greatest passion?

Hunting

Miracle Max

Once the king's leading miracle man, but Humperdinck fired him and so he retired. However, Max still knows enough magic to resurrect Westley from the dead.

Count Rugen

Prince Humperdinck's right-hand man. Count Rugen has six fingers on his right hand. He slew Inigo's father, and in the end is slain by Inigo. He loves torture and spends many hours studying it.

Which couple were so fashionable that they were considered "Couple of the Week" in Florin every week?

The Count and Countess

The Countess

The Count's wife. The countess is the most fashionable woman in what would become Europe. Her attentiveness to Westley stirs envy in Buttercup.

King Lotharon

The King of Florin, and Humperdinck's father. King Lotharon, by the time of the story, is quite old, deaf, and difficult to understand.

Queen Bella

The Queen of Florin and Humperdinck's stepmother.

William Goldman

The actual author of The Princess Bride, as well as many other well- reputed books and screenplays. He casts himself as the "good-parts editor," rewriting the original. Unreliable narrator and anti hero

S. Morgenstern

The fictional Florinese author of The Princess Bride. We know nothing about him other than what William Goldman extracts from the original version.

Buttercup

The most beautiful woman in the world and the heroine of this story. Buttercup loves Westley and her horse. Damsel in distress

Inigo Montoya

Vizzini's man of steel. Inigo is the world's youngest sword-fighting wizard and an extremely skilled and dangerous man. He has spent his life learning the sword in order to avenge his father's death at the hands of Count Rugen. He is an inherently good and loyal man, and he loves swordfighting, brandy and Fezzik.

Post-Modern Literature began

after 1945

Of what animal in the Zoo of Death has Fezzik always been afraid

bats

A bildungsroman is

coming of age novel

Goldman's family is originally from

florin

Goldman is in California because

he's adapting The Stepford Wives into a screenplay and has to go to meetings.

The Sicilian Crowd was hired to

kidnap and kill the Princess, making it look like Guilder had done it.

The land of Florin was ruled by ________ and the queen, but everyone knew that ____________________ actually ran things.

king the prince

What is a R.O.U.S

rodents of unusual size harmless

Prince Humperdinck

villain The heir to the Florinese throne. Humperdinck is squat, hunting-obsessed and rather ridiculous. He prefers fighting and adventure to domestic duties, and so he plots to murder his soon-to-be-wife, Buttercup; frame the Guilderians across the sea; and start a war