"The Glass Ballerina" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Fireplace

The shattering of the glass ballerina provides a well-founded metaphor for Sun, her paths in life and her relationship with her overbearing father. The brief glimpse into Sun's past may reveal the instant at which her perception changed and her manipulation of the truth began, or simply offer a connection to her behavior having been continually fostered from early childhood through her adult life in the present time. In either case, the collusion of the truth-- at the expense of others-- is reflected through the instance of the glass ballerina.
The ballerina shatters in front of the blazing flames of a fireplace in the background. Fire is one of the episode's most prevalent themes, particularly in relation to Sun. In a flashback she is seen striking a match at the dinner table before an explosive conversation with Jin (when he told her he was going to deliver the ultimate "message" at the request of her father, and unknowingly to her secret lover). The fire heating a tea kettle on the boat leads to Colleen's discovery of Sun's presence in the cabin (and ultimately her demise). The center of Sun and Jin's activity circle around the blazing fire emitting a black smoke signal to lure the "Others".
Meanwhile, other highly relevant themes include water (the sailing on the ocean, and Sun and Jin's eventual and emotional reunion in the water) and fire power; once again, rifles, pistols and hand guns prove an invaluable commodity with high tensions all around the island.

Answer: False

While it seems that Sun does the majority of reflecting back to the past while undertaking current circumstances on the island, part of the flashbacks logically belong to Jin alone due to the fact that Sun was not present at the time. (These would be the revealing conversation Jin has with Mr. Paik, in which Mr. Paik refers to Jin as his "son" for the first time in order to persuade him to honor the family for a horrific price, and the final encounter with Jae before his death.) Jin's part in Jae's death completes Sun's story as well.

A tragic irony surfaces when it is revealed that Jae, instantly killed upon hitting the windshield of Jin's car, is clutching the pearls he had offered to Sun. Jin had delivered a message to the man who was "stealing" not only from Mr. Paik, but from Jin as well.

Answer: "Wait!"

Following a conversation with Sayid on the boat, in which Sun had defiantly opposed her husband's wishes while speaking in English, Sun translates Jin's message to her and Sayid with a hint of guilt-- and surprise. Jin makes it known that he understands far more English than one would perceive by his ability to speak, and he had understood her betrayal.
Jin further impresses Sayid in his deft ability to handle the automatic gun he is handed after insisting "gun" to Sayid. During the course of the episode, Jin refers to the Pala Ferry deck by the simple word "Others", and then questions if it is "safe?" Sayid reassures him that it is, but later discovers that the Others are not a group to be underestimated.
In the end, after Sun and Jin are reunited once again, Sayid asks Sun to communicate his apologies for putting their lives at risk. When Sun turns to Jin to translate, Jin shakes his head knowingly-- he had already understood.

Answer: False

Although Jack is approached by both Ben and Juliet in his holding quarters in this episode, he speaks only to Ben.
Juliet enters in the beginning of the episode with a tray of food, and asks if Jack is feeling better. Jack remains silent and expressionless in the corner, and Juliet exits without a response. She then reports back to Ben, who is exiting from the monitoring room.
Another young woman, Colleen, enters. She and Juliet share a tense and somewhat odd verbal exchange before Colleen reports to Ben that an Other who had been spying on Sayid at the "decoy camp" (confirming its nonexistence as a true station) had followed them to the sailboat.
Ben is suddenly alarmed and demands that he wants the sailboat. He orders a team be put together in order to obtain the boat before the sailors could find them.
Ben later goes on to tell Jack that Sawyer and Kate are "fine, and close" to him. This must be true, considering the fact that Juliet is with Ben in the monitoring station outside Jack's cell and then soon after is joining Sawyer and Kate outside. Colleen is also seen exiting when the group decides to track those on the sailboat, at which time she shows great affection for Pickett.
While the rest are gone outside, Ben has other ideas for Jack.

Answer: Food

Kate awakens to the sound of the congratulatory song playing in Sawyer's cage after he easily repeats the solving of the gizmo. (It is now determined to be the next morning, the group having been one day in captivity, judging by Kate's mentioning of the alarm clock.) Having mastered how to obtain fish biscuits, Sawyer offers one to Kate just before the Others come to collect them.
Pickett hands Sawyer the box and informs him that it is their lunch, which will be needed for them to keep up their strength.
While working, Kate encounters Alex and the two share a brief and secretive conversation. Alex inquires about a young man her age, Karl, who is known to be the former inhabitant of Kate's cage and who made an escape attempt. Alex appears worried about Karl and mutters that Kate is not even "supposed" to be in that cage, leading into more questions about the true plans and intentions of the Others.

Answer: They were not allowed to take a break

At the beginning of the day, at which time Pickett orders that the two will be assigned the grueling task of chopping and hauling rocks from the site, some rules are set out under threat of being shocked with a taser-like device.
(Pickett does add, however, that they will be provided a ten minute break for lunch.)
Pickett warns that if Sawyer and Kate speak to, touch, or look at one another, or slack off, they will be shocked. In addition, they are directed to raise their hands to ask questions (which Kate initially ignores, and to which Sawyer obliges with sarcasm).
Kate immediately defies the orders and says that she refuses to do anything without seeing Jack. Their captor responds nonchalantly by sending Sawyer reeling to the ground with one-fourth the power of the taser.
After the incident, Kate becomes reluctantly compliant in the extremely uncomfortable situation forced upon her by working in a dress. Sawyer is physically weakened but more fiercely determined than ever to set back the seemingly invincible "enemies".

Answer: cooperate

In Sayid's desperation to locate Jack, after coming to the realization that the group had likely been captured, he deems it necessary to manipulate Sun and Jin into docking the boat and building a fire.
After his plan is revealed to Sun, he explains that two Others must be taken hostage during the ambush-- one to make the other cooperate, when he undoubtedly plans to utilize his torturing skills to acquire information. (Unfortunately, he had already been followed to the sailboat and the black smoke would now only lead the Others exactly where they wished to be.)
Ironically, a similar situation is occurring on the part of the Others with Kate and Sawyer in their captivity. Sayid understands that one will be willing to take upon oneself what will not be allowed to be inflicted upon a companion or friend-- and Pickett understands this as well.
Unfortunately for the prisoners, the Others have the upper hand. Sawyer's attempt to escape is defeated by a threat to Kate's life, and the result leaves him injured and defenseless.
Meanwhile, Sayid's plan does indeed place Sun and Jin in serious risk to their lives while in the process of luring the Others. The ambush Sayid had intended leads to a sabotage which endangers Sun in particular.
The Others wanted only the boat.

Answer: Second

Jin is seen following Jae through the hotel towards Jae's hotel room, on his way to "deliver the message". Jin is seen exiting an elevator displaying the number "2", indicating that they are on the second floor, before making his way down the hall to Jae's room.
Jin encounters Jae at the hotel room door, we see that Jae's room number is "1516", perhaps a grim forecast of his future.
Although Jin releases Jae with his life, the night ends in tragedy.
Sun's father is an extremely prevalent figure throughout her flashbacks, and those of Jin as well. The lingering presence of Mr. Paik conveys the fact that he had essentially ruled over Sun's life from childhood (as seen by the fear he evoked in young Sun, leading to her learned manipulation) until her time with Jin.
The shattering of the glass ballerina had begun-- or perhaps only perpetuated-- a life of mistrust and uncertainty created between Sun and her father and husband.
The outcome of her manipulation could have devastating effects. After discovering she was pregnant, although she had learned earlier that she had been unable to become pregnant because of Jin, Sun swore to Jin that she had never been with another man-- and that was the whole truth.
It is now learned that this was far from true, particularly with Jae, and that Sun had simply lied.
The baby she now carried could not be Jae's, simply due to time elapsed since the flight and the current stage of her pregnancy. However, a wide realm of uncertainty now enters over the question of whether or not the baby is Jin's. It could indeed be another "miraculous" island occurrence-- or something a bit more (or less?) disquieting.
In any case, the reunion of Sun and Jin delays a delicate future which hangs in the balance, and resurfaces only a mutual love.

Answer: 6

When encountering Sun on the boat, Colleen tells her, "I am not the enemy. We are not the enemy. But if you shoot me, that is exactly what we'll become." The Others seem to continuously make the claim that THEY are not the enemy. If this is true, it implies that someone else is the enemy instead and that the Others are not who they are perceived to be.
Colleen warns that five of her friends were also on board the boat, and ignores Sun's demands that she stop approaching. Colleen claims that she "knows" Sun, and that it is not her decision regarding whether or not to let Sun off the boat. (Somehow, many of the Others seem to automatically know the full names of the survivors by memory. The question remains of how and why this is made possible.)
Sun, however, is not as docile and fragile as she once appeared to be. In the face of danger she shoots and kills Colleen at point blank range.
While escaping it is seen that Tom (a.k.a. "Bluebeard", by Sawyer, who apparently no longer bothers to don the false beard) shoots twice at Sun.
One point to note is that, although Sawyer attributed Tom to being his shooter, it was actually one of a pair of identical twin men who had been aboard the speedboat when Walt was captured and had shot Sawyer. They, along with the blonde woman who had thrown the Molotov cocktail explosive, have yet to be seen again among the Others.

Answer: That he wants Jack to change his "attitude" about the "Others"

To bring audience and survivors alike up to date, Ben recites with absolute certainty that the date is now November 29, 2004, a full sixty-nine days after the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 (which Desmond discovered had occurred on September 22).
In that time, he attests, a presidential reelection, the death of a well-known celebrity and an incredible sports event had occurred in the "real world" in America.
(Ben also comments on the situational irony occurring in the midst of it all-- one week earlier he had been the timid and fear-stricken Henry Gale, far different from the strong-powered man now sitting before Jack in the captivity Ben had been subjected to within the hatch armory.)
Ben comes forward to introduce himself honestly as Benjamin Linus, claiming that he had lived on the island all of his life. (Whether this implied that he was born and raised as an Other or if had ever had contact in the real world is unknown.)
Ben confirms that Michael and Walt, last seen departing on the speedboat used to capture Walt, had "gone home".
He begins to tell Jack he wishes for him to make an "attitude" change, but changes his wording and uses "perspective".
Ben's words mean nothing to Jack until, in a most unlikely (and yet, true!) spin of events Ben announces that the Red Sox had won the World Series.
The news struck Jack on many levels of disbelief and irony, since the identifying phrase he had shared with his father for the hope of the impossible was "when the Sox win the Series". Most ironically-- and coincidentally- was the true connection to the outside world.
Ben then offers Jack an opportunity no survivor held in captivity for so long on an island such as theirs may be able to refuse-- a chance to cooperate, and be sent home.
Like Desmond's mentioning of being trapped in a "snow globe" on the island, and the image of the delicate tumble of a glass ballerina, "home" to Jack was just on the other side of the glass.