Authors and their works Classroom Fun Literary Movements and Trivia Huck Finn Miscellaneous
100
Who is Thoreau?
This man went alone to live in a cabin in the woods of Massachusetts.
100
What is Sparks Diamond?
This white animal has a beautiful sequined coat and a unicorn horn.
100
What is Transcendentalism?
This literary movement was based on self-reliance and a love of nature.
100
Who is Tom Sawyer?
He is Huck's friend who always wants to play mischievous games.
100
Who is Meyer Wolfsheim?
What is the name of Gatsby's shady companion with the cuff links made of human molars?
200
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This fugitive slave wrote an autobiography and an important essay entitled "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July."
200
What is the Bee?
Coles and Josh like to fight over this stuffed animal.
200
What is bowling?
This sport is Stanley Kowalski's favorite.
200
Who are the Grangerfords?
This family was feuding with the Shepherdsons.
200
Who is Tennessee Williams?
What playwright wrote The Glass Menagerie and Streetcar Named Desire?
300
What is Belle Reve?
This plantation is the lost home of Blanche Dubois in Streetcar Named Desire.
300
What is drip?
Joe's Fila jacket is an example of this.
300
What is modernism?
This literary movement shows experimentation and contains themes of alienation and futility.
300
What is the ending?
Many critics, including Ernest Hemingway, have called this part of the book "flawed" because it shows a regression rather than a progression.
300
Who is Emily Dickinson?
What reclusive American poet did not consent to publishing her poetry while she was still alive?
400
What is catalepsy?
In "Fall of the House of Usher" Madeline Usher suffers from this malady that makes her living body resemble a dead corpse.
400
What are push-ups?
Mrs. Smith can do more than Charles.
400
What is fissure?
This word means "crack" and was used to describe the house in Poe's "House of Usher."
400
What is a girl?
Huck attempts (unsuccessfully) to act like one of these but is caught when he sits with his knees apart.
400
What is "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge?"
What is the Ambrose Bierce story that relates the thoughts of condemned Civil War prisoner Peyton Farquhar?
500
What is the Lost Generation?
Hemingway and Fitzgerald, two American modernists, were part of this group of writers in Paris.
500
What are dead words?
Mrs. Smith does not know how students would use these things in their papers as they are not what she wants them to use.
500
Who is Abigail?
This girl was the "wild child" of the witches and fomented the hysteria to hide her affair with John Proctor.
500
Who is Scooby?
This is the name of Mrs. Smith's dog and is also the name of a popular cartoon.
500
What is a trapped woman shaking the bars of her cage?
What symbolic hallucination does the narrator see in "The Yellow Wallpaper?"






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