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Story Knowledge
100

Author of "Trifles"

Susan Glaspell

100

In what story do you find “She was rockin’ back and forth. She had her apron in her hand and was kind of — pleating it.”

Trifles

100

Reason Mrs. Wright killed Mr. Wright

Mr. Wright killed her bird

100

Mrs. wright was here at the beginning of the story

Jail

200

Did William Faulkner have any siblings, if so, how many

Yes, he was the oldest of 4 brothers

200

Who said "I want arsenic”

Emily 

200

Why were Harry and Hale going to see Mr. Wright at the farmhouse?

Convince him to get on party telephone line with them

200

2 changes that happened to Mrs. Wright throughout her marriage?

She used to love to sing in the choir.

Not very social or friendly. 

She became sad and lonely.  

Her marriage was unwelcoming. 


300

Where did William Faulkner graduate high school?

He did not finish high school.

300

“I remember the very day that I became colored.” Who says this quote? Full Name Required

Zora Neale Hurston

300

Why does Miss Emily buy arsenic?

To kill Homer Barron

300

Zora Hurston lived here until she was 13

Eatonville, Florida

400

Where did Zora Neale Hurston attend college?

Howard University

400

“Where the old man made his mistake was in sending the boy East to school . . ." 

___ is talking about ___ in ___

Phelps is talking about Harvey in the Sculptor’s Funeral.

400

Why did the tourists give Zora money as they passed through Eatonville?

For her performances they watched as they passed through

400

How old does Zora say she was when she “became colored?”

13

500

William Cathers birth state

Virginia

500

"[His] head seemed even more noble in its rigid stillness than in life. The dark hair had crept down upon the wide forehead; the face seemed strangely long, but in it there was not that beautiful and chaste repose which we expect to find in the faces of the dead” Who is being described

Harvey Merrick

500

Why did the body of Harvey Merrick arrive in a train?

He died away from his hometown in Kansas, because he had a career in sculpting in the East Coast. 

500

When was A Rose for Emily first published?

April 30, 1930

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