Short Stories
Fight Club
Grammar
Steven King
Mr. Nap
100
This is the title of Ernest Hemingway's story that features a couple traveling through Spain.
What is "Hills Like White Elephants."
100
This is the ailment that the narrator is suffering from at the beginning of the novel.
What is insomnia?
100
This is the piece of punctuation that divides items in a list.
What is a comma?
100
This is the title of Steven King's memoir about writing.
What is On Writing?
100
These are Mr. Nap's three favorite movies.
What are Gladiator, 300, and Braveheart?
200
This author wrote the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart."
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
200
This is the name of the testicular cancer support group.
What is Remaining Men?
200
This is the correct way to represent the title of a novel or film in standard written English.
What is underlining or italicizing?
200
This is ailment that Steven King suffered with as a child.
What is an ear infection?
200
Mr. Nap's car is this color.
What is silver?
300
That is on the "death" card in the short story "The Lottery."
What is a black dot.
300
This is the third rule of fight club.
What is two men per fight.
300
Poe used this piece of punctuation at the beginning of his story "The Tell-Tale Heart" to show an abrupt change in thought.
What is a dash?
300
Steven King was working in this field when he got his first book deal.
What is education or teaching.
300
This is the soft drink that Mr. Nap consumes at 7:30 every Friday night.
What is root beer?
400
Flannery O'Connor's fiction takes place in this region of the country?
What is the South.
400
This is the genre of fiction represented by the novel Fight Club.
What is postmodernism.
400
These are three ways to divide independent clauses.
What are period capital letter; comma conjunction; semicolon.
400
This is the piece of advice that Steven King says is the most important thing for young writers to keep in mind.
What is "Omit Needless Words."
400
This is the color of Mr. Nap's "happy tie."
What is green?
500
Jack London and Edgar Allen Poe were this age when they died of alcohol-related causes.
What is 40 years old.
500
This is the actor who played the unnamed protagonist in the film version of Fight Club.
Who is Edward Norton.
500
This is the name of the grammar error in which two independent clauses are joined together without any punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?
500
This is the number of words that Steven King says writers should get down on paper every day.
What is 1000?
500
This is the sport that Mr. Nap played in elementary school.
What is soccer.
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