Six Categories

• Complications• Setting• Who said it?• Vocabulary• Characters• Meg

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Jonas & Terry

Between who do you sense a love affair

developing?

A stream of warm blood from her dying mate

What allows Meg to rise to the ocean’s surface?

Maggie’s refusal to stop filming

What causes Maggie to be eaten by Meg?

There is far more oxygen in air at sea level

What makes the Meg even hungrier?

the Meg’s baby

What loose end does the author not account for?

7 miles beneath the ocean’s surface

Where do the Meg and her mate reside?

a mental hospital

When /where does Jonas meet Mac?

Japanese detention camps in California

Where did Masao Tanaka spent his childhood?

The Tanaka lagoon

Where will they try to trap the Meg?

the seacliff

What is the name of the submersible that Jonas is

on when he “freaks”?

“This could be the story of the decade and I missed

it!”

Who is Maggie

“Is it safe to go in the water?”

What is asked at the 1st news conference after

Meg surfaces?

“This lagoon has been my dream since I was six

years old.”

Who is Masao Tanaka?

“Please understand that the Meg is the greatest killing machine in the history of the planet.”

Who is Jonas?

“I don’t know what’s on the other end of this, but

is sure as hell is more than D.J.’s sub!”

Who is the captain of Tanaka’s boat? (Barre)

phobia

What is the Greek term for “fear it”?

“the bends”

What condition can result from rising to the ocean’s

surface too quickly?

claustrophobia

What is “fear of enclosed places”?

the food chain

What is when the medium fish eats the little fish etc.

… and Meg eats everyone?

predator

What is someone or something that preys on weak helpless creatures?

Maggie

Who was Jonah’s wife?

D. J. Tanaka

Who descends to the trench with Jonah?

Frank Heller

Who is the Navy captain who blames Jonas for the deaths of 2 of his men?

The helicopter pilot Jonas meets in a mental hospital

Who is Mac?

Jonah from the Bible

Who else takes a journey inside a whale?

The T-rex

Who is the shark’s first victim in the book?

Meg’s length

What is between 50 & 60 feet?

Meg’s weight

40,000 pounds

400 million years

How old is Meg’s species?

8

How many sensory organs does Meg have?