Edgar Allan Poe
The Crucible
The Scarlet Letter
Mark Twain
Emerson & Thoreau
100
What is the Raven's only spoken word?
nevermore
100
What is the one commandment John Proctor could not remember?
adultery
100
Where does this story take place?
Boston
100
What is Twain's boyhood town?
Hannibal
100
What is the name of the pond that Thoreau lived alongside?
Walden
200
The Murders of the Rue Morgue was the first type of this kind of story
detective story
200
What is the manner in which Giles Cory was killed?
pressed to death with stones
200
What is the letter he added to his name?
W
200
What is the prequel to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
200
According to Emerson, who should you trust above all others?
yourself
300
What is the disease from which his wife, and others in his life, died from?
tuberculosis
300
Who is the author of The Crucible?
Arthur Miller
300
What are the 3 meanings of the letter "A"?
adultery, able, angel
300
What is Twain's favorite occupation?
riverboat pilot
300
What is reason Thoreau spent a night in jail?
not paying taxes
400
What is the murderer in The Murders of the Rue Morgue?
orangutan
400
What is the year of the witch trials?
1692
400
What is the literacy technique used in the book (e.g. the scaffold)?
symbolism
400
Who are the two characters who came aboard the raft with Jim and Huck?
the king and the duke
400
What is the title of Emerson's first essay which reflects the essence of his period?
Nature
500
What is his young wife's name?
Virginia (Clemm)
500
The author, actually wrote this book about Joseph McCarthy, a senator in the 1950's, who was accusing Americans of being what?
communists
500
Every Puritan community had the first 2 portions of land allotted for these
prison + cemetery
500
His first story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, was published when he was a newspaper reporter in what state?
California
500
What is the amount of time Thoreau spent living alongside the pond? (years + months)
2 years/2 months
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