Red Scarf Girl
Edgar Allen Poe
Brain Science
Brown Girl Dreaming
Grammar
100

Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party?

Who is Chairman Mao?

100

What is amontillado a type of?

What is wine?

100

What is the purpose of the marshmallow test?

What is, to measure impulse control/delayed gratification

100

Which  3 places did Jacqueline spend her youth in? 

What are Ohio, South Carolina, and New York?


100

What is a dependent clause?

What is, a group of words that contains a subject and a verb but cannot stand alone?

200

What was the name of the main character? 

Who is Ji-Li?

200

What is it about his elderly neighbor that scares the narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart?" 

What is his eye?

200

What was the object that went through Phineas's skull? 

What is a tamping iron?

200

What was the name of Jackie's best friend?

Who is Maria?

200

What is a complex sentence made up of?

What is one dependent clause and one independent clause?

300

Which member of the main character's family was jailed?

Who is her father?

300

Where did the narrator hide the old man's body in "The Tell-Tale Heart?" 

Where is under the floorboards?

300
How did Phineas change as a result of his brain injury?

What is, his personality changed/he became more difficult and argumentative/he could not hold a job/he was child-like 

300

Name Jackie's 2 brothers and her sister

Who are Hope, Roman, and Dell?

300

Give an example of a phrase

Answers will vary, but it must be 2 or more words that are missing a subject, a predicate, or both

400

What were the mean posters students wrote about their teachers called?

What are da-zi-bao?

400

Name one of the two main characters in "The Cask of Amontillado"

Who are Montresor and Fortunato?

400

Which part of the brain is not fully developed in adolescents?

What is the pre-frontal cortex?

400

Which revolutionary group did Jackie look up to? (Hint: Angela Davis was one of the leaders) 

Who are the Black Panthers?

400

What is the misplaced modifier in this sentence:

After finishing my dinner, the waitress offered to bring the dessert tray. 

What is, "after finishing my dinner"

500

Name 2 of the 4 "four-olds" in communist China

What are old customs, ideas, culture, or habits

500

Explain at least two major parts of the plan to kill a man in the catacombs

1. Trick him into coming to taste the amontillado
2. Bring him deep into the catacombs
3. Push him into a small room and chain his arms
4. Build a wall to bury him alive

500

Where did Phineas Gage's accident take place? (In which state?)

What is Vermont?

500

What happens to Roman when he is a toddler?

What is, he has pica and eats paint. The lead makes him sick and he is hospitalized. 

500
Fix this sentence so that it no longer has a dangling modifier:


Jogging in the park, the dog bit me. 

What is "While I was jogging in the park, the dog bit me." 

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