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100
He carried newspaper clippings and a dented harmonica.
Who is Lemon Brown?
100
A grandfather gives his grandson a sacred object.
What is "The Medicine Bag"?
100
A series of events.
What is plot?
100
He visits his grandmother out of guilt.
Who is Mike?
100
Greatly interested; to be taken in.
What is absorbing?
200
Needed $2000 to pull of a fraudulent land scheme so they kidnapped a boy.
Who are Sam and Bill?
200
Ebeneezer Dorset does not want to pay.
What is "The Ransom of Red Chief"
200
Reference to a commonly known piece of literature, music, etc.
What is allusion?
200
He buries the old man under the floorboards of his room.
Who is the narrator of The Tell Tale Heart?
200
Foolish or ridiculous.
What is absurd?
300
He wanted to be trusted by the woman who took him home.
Who is Roger?
300
A speech saying all men are created equal.
What is "I Have a Dream"?
300
The old man starves to give a meal to a full man.
What is irony?
300
A piece of autobiographical writing that is about one particular point in the subject's life.
What is a memoir?
300
To stop further motion; to prevent from moving forward.
What is arrest?
400
A cobra crawled across her foot.
Who is Mrs. Wynnes?
400
The old man's eye caused his death.
What is "The Tell Tale Heart"?
400
A logical conclusion.
What is an inference?
400
Grady Bishop and Ray Hammond.
Who are the bus drivers from "The Woman in the Snow"?
400
To break a tie, trust, duty, law or bond. To break through.
What is breach?
500
He survived the Holocaust.
Who is Elie Wiesel?
500
A civil rights ghost story.
What is "The Woman in the Snow"?
500
The highpoint of the story.
What is the climax?
500
He is accused of being an accomplice to murder.
Who is Steve Harmon?
500
To overturn, to flip over.
What is capsize?
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